| mel
boring |
Join us this afternoon
in the AUDITORIUM-Scheduled Events Room for an "Open Forum" with Web
Editor Mel Boring. Mel has published some 25 magazine articles and
stories, as well as eight books for the young readers market. He
taught writing for 18 years, while being home husband and parent to
two of his four children, and doing his own writing. He welcomes
your questions on time management, getting started, writer's block,
marketing, writing rights, writing earnings, or anything else you'd
like to discuss. Bring your QUESTIONS to this open forum-in five
minutes.
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| mel
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The Tuesday afternoon
"Open Forum" will begin promptly at 4 Atlantic/CANADA, 3 p.m.
Eastern, 2 p.m. Central, 1 p.m. Mountain, and noon Pacific. While
you wait for the "Open Forum" to start, feel free to use your ASK A
QUESTION button RIGHT BETWEEN THE YELLOW "MAP" AND THE RED QUESTION
MARK IN ICHAT to post some questions for the discussion group-two
minutes from now.
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| mel
boring |
Good afternoon! Welcome
to this Tuesday afternoon's "Open Forum" session. I'm your
moderator, Mel Boring, and the Web Editor for this site. We're back
for an informal time of answering any questions you might like to
ask, on any subject. So feel free to ask what's on your mind--and
I'll tell you what's on mine! First, please read these
announcements, then we'll get started.
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| mel
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IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS:
Send questions you'd like answered or discussed by using your "Ask a
Question" icon/button. (It looks like a thought bubble icon, RIGHT
NEXT TO THE RED QUESTION MARK.) The moderator (me, Mel Boring) will
post the questions one at a time in the chat room and do my best to
answer them. Also note: If you want to make it possible to ask the
longest question you can, first type "/ask" (without the quotation
marks), then leave one space after the end of "ask", then type as
many characters of your question as you can. If your question is not
complete, send the second part next, then if necessary the third,
etc.
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| mel
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WARNING: If you don't
post anything at all, SOME of you will be bounced off the system in
15 minutes. TO PREVENT THIS, type something (either a question to
the moderator or even a private message) every 15 minutes to stay
active and remain online.
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| mel
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Before I forget
them...
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| mel
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there are two things I
need to tell you....
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| mel
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First, what I'll call
the "Word of the Forum" for today is:..
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| mel
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haptic \HAP-tik\
adjective
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| mel
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Anyone know what it
means?
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| mel
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Secondly, kay kay had a
question sometime ago...
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| mel
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about her submission to
a magazine, and the acceptance, that an editor...
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| mel
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of the magazine later
said they had NEVER received....
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| mel
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Here was her original
telling of the situation:...
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| mel
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kay kay: In March 2004
I received an acceptance letter from a magazine. The editor stated
that my article would be published in March 2005, and to please
e-mail the finished product, in a zipped folder. I did this, and
received a confirmation that they had received it. They then asked
me to send them an invoice in March 2005. I sent them the invoice
last week. Today I received an e-mail from a different editor,
saying they had no record of my article ever having even been read,
let alone accepted. I have a copy of the acceptance letter, which I
e-mailed to her along with the article. What can be done about this?
Is the acceptance letter considered a contract? I am very unsure as
to how to proceed with this. Can you give me any
advice?
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| mel
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We
replied:...
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| mel
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Either there's been an
honest mistake, kay kay, in which ONE editor (who may have left the
magazine) does/says ONE thing, and ANOTHER editor (who may not be
communicating with the OTHER), says something DIFFERENT. That can
happen if two editors don't like each other, for instance, or if one
has left the magazine, and the other has just come in new to it.
First, find out IF your article was published in the March 2005
issue, unless you already know whether or not it was. The acceptance
letter is NOT considered a contract; but it IS, of course, a
statement of what the editor intended to do with your article. So
AFTER you know definitely whether or not your article was published
by them, send them a copy of the acceptance letter you received.
Also send them any other correspondence you received, e-mail and/or
hardcopy. Send these by snailmail, and register them to make sure
they arrive at the magazine. I also suggest sending this same
"package" to MORE than one person, perhaps...
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| mel
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another editor or the
editor-in-chief (if there is one), so that you have a "second check"
on things. I wish you JUSTICE, kay kay!
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| mel
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It was THE OLD
SCHOOLHOUSE MAGAZINE which kay kay was dealing
with....
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| mel
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I tell you this ONLY
that you can beware of the possiblity of such a thing--at ANY
magazine....
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| mel
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I hope you will receive
this information and be discreet with it....
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| mel
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We wouldn't EVER want
it to come back on kay kay....
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| mel
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So be advised, be wise,
but also be discreet!
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| mel
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And THANK YOU, kay kay,
for being willing to bravely tell us this info!
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| mel
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Now the GOOD
NEWS!...
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| writermom |
Mel I just wanted to
share some good news with you I got an email from ParentLife last
week that they are going to publish an article I wrote entitled
"Baby!...Again!" in their January 2006 issue
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| mel
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HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS,
writermom!!!...
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| mel
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writermom is an editor
with an online publication...
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| mel
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and some of you have
been published by her....
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| mel
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MANY HAPPY RERUNS,
writermom, from ALL of us!
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| mel
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I'm sorry to be a
little slower than usual today,...
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| mel
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but I've been playing
"ketchup," and I'm a little like getting the FIRST ketchup out of
the bottle! (-:}...
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| mel
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GOOD NEWS from Chitra
Baitmangalkar: I have started writing for the Azmi Foundation, my
script for the first CD has been approved.
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| The next one is
about Archimides |
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| mel
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You probably know that
Chitra has published on our Web site,...
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| mel
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and we send our
CONGRATULATIONS to you overseas, Chitra!!!...
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| mel
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I'm going to be
watching for that CD of yours!
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| mel
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GOOD poetry NEWS from
Sonya: I received good news from HIGHLIGHTS this week. They accepted
my (first) poem entitled "What's For Breakfast?".
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| mel
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Sonya is a long-time
and steady participant in our Web site
activities...
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| mel
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WAY TO WRITE RIGHT,
Sonya!...
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| mel
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Just that TITLE sounds
DELICIOUS!
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| mel
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Donna Marie West sent
us this GOOD NEWS: I've just published an article called "Something
in the Water" in the March - April issue of WHAT
IF?
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| mel
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I THINK I remember
Donna being published in WHAT IF? before,...
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| mel
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so it sounds like she
almost has a regular job with them!...
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| mel
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CONGRATULATIONS,
Donna!!! And may it happen to you again, and again!
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| mel
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Bish reports her GOOD
NEWS: I've had an acceptance from Wee Ones for an article I wrote!
Now comes the long wait. It won't be published until March/April of
2006.
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| mel
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Bish has VERY recently
been published on our ICL WEb site...
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| mel
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GOOD WORK,
Bish--congratulations!!! WEE ONES is a prestigious
publishment!...
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| mel
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Your joy must be as BIG
as your home state of Texas!
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| mel
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History Writer shared
this GOOD NEWS: I just received an "Honorable Mention" for a poem I
wrote for the Women In The Arts Annual Writing Contest in Decatur,
Illinois.
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| I ever sent in to
a contest |
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| mel
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You can probably guess
what History Writer's favorite subject is to write
about!...
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| mel
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And I'd bet History
Writer does it VERY WELL! CONGRATULATIONS!\
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| mel
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Sue Sundwall tells us
this GOOD NEWS: I have an interesting sale to share with your forum.
I'd told you a few weeks ago that I'd sold a play. Well, early last
week the same editor came back to me in an e-mail asking about yet
another play I'd subbed
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| ago, but that she
had rejected. She had really liked it, but there were a few elements
that didn't work. Later, when putting together her program book, she
found herself desperate for good |
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| sent me the
e-mail asking if she could purchase it. There were some revisions
she'd made herself (which I approved) and voila! I sold my third
children's Christmas play. A |
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| I hope this is an
inspiration to some of the folks to just keep trying. You never know
when an editor is going to take a liking to your work, so hang in
there |
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| mel
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Sue Sundwall has been
published on our Web site MANY times....
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| mel
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and I am SO pleased
that she has published one of the most DIFFICULT things to
publish,...
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| mel
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a play! If we
children's writers feel rejected, children's POETS must feel it even
worse. WAY TO GO, SUE! I see Bandy Bandana waving his yellow and red
and blue and green and purple neckerchiefs for
you!!!
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| mel
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Sarah has this GOOD
NEWS: I got a nice surprise in the mail yesterday. Reiman Publishers
picked up a recipe for chocolate dip I’d submitted to them at least
a year
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| of Country. The
dip is shown on page 49 and the recipe is on the next page. I was a
bit disappointed that they changed my suggestion of ½ pint whipping
cream to 2 cups of whipped topping, but I suppose that’s healthier.
Anyway, that’s the second article of mine they've picked
up |
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| mel
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Sarah is perhaps BEST
known to us as spotslover2...
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| mel
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and the sight of that
CHOCOLATE in the recipe makes me suddenly grab for some,
friend!...
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| mel
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CONGRATULATIONS, Sarah,
and BEST WISHES for more and more publishing!!!
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| mel
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Chippy sent me TWO
pieces of his obviously good humor and I want to share
them:...
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| mel
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Chippy noted
mirthfully: Do elephants take their trunks on
safari?
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| mel
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HA! I LOVE
it!
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| mel
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Thanks,
Chippy!
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| mel
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ANOTHER good laugh from
Chippy: If wowser is said "with tongue in cheek" it must be pretty
painful!
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| mel
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Remember "wowser" was
once our Word of the Forum....
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| mel
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Remember what it means?
If you do, you'll understand Chippy's remark. THANKS, Chippy, for
some GOOD laughs today!!!
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| linbaka |
Where is
Spring?
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| mel
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GOOD question,
linbaka!...
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| mel
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I am wondering here in
Iowa, too!...
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| mel
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SOME people have
spotted robins, but I haven't yet....
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| mel
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Maybe we could write
some verse:...
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| mel
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I'll
begin...
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| mel
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SPRING is
hesitatING.
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| delima-e |
the word haptic means
-having to do with the sense of touch
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| mel
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Absolutely right,
delima-e!...
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| mel
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I LOVE that word
because it's SHORT and very pronounceable!...
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| mel
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It's pronounced
HAP-tick.
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| mel
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You get an A+,
delima-e, for being the FIRST to come up with the
definition!
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| mel
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Here's more about
"haptic":...
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| jackie7777 |
Haptic - the sense of
touch.
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| mel
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Good, jackie7777!
Though haptic is really an ADJECTIVE....
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| mel
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I'm not sure there IS a
noun form. I'll find out!
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| spotslover2 |
I looked haptic up in our
unabridged Webster and it was not there. Did someone just make it
up?
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| mel
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You're right,
spotslover2, it IS NOT in most dictionaries,...
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| mel
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but it's a good--and
rare--word. I don't think I've EVER heard anyone use it, have
you?
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| jackie7777 |
Hi Mel, I am new , do we
have a topic for this forum?
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| mel
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Thanks for asking,
jackie! No, we don't have topics at this forum....
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| mel
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I feel it's better here
to just answer questions at random....
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| mel
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There are TIMES when we
seem to get onto a "theme" for a while...
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| mel
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But here at the ICL
Forum, ANYTHING GOES!...
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| mel
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Well, ALMOST
anything!
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| writermom |
Mel I am in the process
of writing a fantasy novel and have decided to do it in three parts
the first part is finished at about 29000 words and the other two
parts are partially written with outlines for both and beginning
chapters for the third part my question is can I pitch the first
part to an agent or publisher or should I wait until all three parts
are finished
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| mel
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My suggestion would be,
for a FIRST-time book-published (if you are)...
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| mel
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to make the FIRST 29000
words a BOOK ON ITS OWN....
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| mel
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If the three parts
totaled about 90,000 words, that would be
DIFFICULT...
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| mel
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to sell to a children's
publisher, that long a piece....
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| mel
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I know, I know, the
HARRY POTTERS are LONGER THAN LONG....
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| mel
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But when you're just
beginning in books (if you are, writermom),...
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| mel
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your BEST chance is to
KISS--Keep It Short and Sweet!...
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| mel
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It is just very hard to
sell tomes for children. Start smaller, then when you become WELL
published, with children WAITING FOR your next novel, you can write
as LONG as you want to!
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| mel
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SH wants to know: I was
under the impression that I needed to find an agent for childrens
books. I have found a few
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| seem to want
money up front. Can you please recommend an agent or would you
suggest that I write to editors, too |
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| mel
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SH, agents are a "Catch
22" situation:...
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| mel
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You can't sell a first
book, so you look for an agent, very
UNDERSTANDABLY....
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| mel
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But MOST agents won't
take you on UNTIL you've sold a book (or two!)....
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| mel
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So my STRONGEST advice
is what you've already come up with:...
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| mel
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YES, submit to editors
FIRST!...
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| mel
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Then when you're
reasonably successful, agents may coming looking for YOU,
friend!...
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| mel
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Agents are NOT just for
"selling a book."...
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| mel
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They are for more or
less MANAGING YOUR WRITING CAREER....
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| mel
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in that they KNOW the
publishers, send your manuscript here or there,...
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| mel
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and in doing so, are
"advising" you, not only saving you time....
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| mel
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Agents would likely
tell you they are not in business for "the quick
sale,"...
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| mel
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which is what MOST of
us writers just want when we begin, and are
unpublished....
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| mel
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SO, if you WANT an
agent, START SUBMITTING your own work YOURSELF....
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| mel
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You'll "learn the
ropes" in doing that. THEN, agents will notice you, that you are
MAKING your own career...
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| mel
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THEN they will want to
do for you what is their PURPOSE: Manage your
career....
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| mel
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If you DON'T have a
writing career of SOME kind, agents will not be interested in
you....
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| mel
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You will interest
AGENTS ONLY insomuch as you first INTEREST
EDITORS....
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| mel
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To do that, you must
WRITE, WRITE, WRITE...
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| mel
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REWRITE, REWRITE,
REWRITE, REWRITE, REWRITE, REWRITE, REWRITE, REWRITE,
...
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| mel
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and polish your writing
until an editor cannot refuse it....
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| mel
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I've heard an agent
say, "Beginning writers want US to do their work for
them....
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| mel
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That is, they want us
to take a manuscript that is NOT polished, and sell
it....
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| mel
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The truth is that the
WRITER is in charge of polish....
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| mel
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and the WRITER sells
themSELF, to editors, and then to an agent."...
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| mel
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Getting an agent at the
BEGINNING of your career (Mel here again)...
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| mel
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looks like the easy way
out. But you MUST FIND A WAY THROUGH....
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| mel
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THROUGH to publishers
and publication.
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| lizziegirl |
Does my teacher need to
know what pic I am use for my story?
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| mel
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Yes, they should,
lizziegirl....
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| mel
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although it might be
obvious to them....
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| mel
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It still helps to make
sure by mentioning which picture.
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| caq |
If you have a piece that
has won a contest (ByLIne for instance because they don't publish it
or purchase rights) and you submit it to a publisher later, should
you say it won a contest in your coverletter or would that be like
saying, "This is good because it won," I have been told publishers
don't like to be told what is good, they want to decide
themselves.
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| mel
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YES, you SHOULD tell
them it won a contest, caq....
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| mel
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That's not the same as
telling them point-blank: "THIS IS GOOD."...
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| mel
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Just tell them it won,
and let them judge your "goodness" for themselves.
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| diane45 |
How do I help a
discouraged writer from not feeling so discouraged? It doesn't seem
as though my suggestions and comments for this person's stories
help, and I try to point out the good as well as the
bad.
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| mel
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diane45, I am VERY
PLEASED that you're helping another writer!...
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| mel
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You ARE doing the right
thing by telling them both the good and the bad....
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| mel
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But what that
discourage writer does with it is STILL up to them, I'm
afraid....
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| mel
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The old saying, "You
can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him
drink."...
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| mel
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That writer ultimately
will have to take on for themselves, diane45. BUt KEEP on telling
them what you're telling them!
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| mel
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MB is asking: I have
authored one inspirational book containing poetry, prose and short
stories. Now I have a children's story about an Atlantic Puffin in
the Shetland Islands. The aim of writing this story is to inspire
and encourage children suffering Verbal Dyspraxia. (Verbal dyspraxia
affects the delivery of a child's speech. The child can be quite
intelligent, know what they want to say, fully understand the words
they want to say, but be incapable of making the correct or total
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| story is almost
finished. In polishing the text I want to direct it to the most
appropriate age. As a beginner in writing for children, I would
welcome your advice re the above and possible suitable links that
would help me |
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| mel
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This is a long
question, but I thought it important to make it
complete....
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| mel
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MB to MB:
(-:}...
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| mel
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Your book, I believe,
should be for the age group at which dyspraxia is MOST
crucial....
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| mel
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I'm guessing that would
be about 5 or 6 when the child first went to
school,...
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| mel
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and had to make use of
verbal skills....
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| mel
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Their dyspraxia would
SHOW UP then....
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| mel
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So if you wrote it for,
say, ages 5 to 7, that might be NEED meeting
PROVISION....
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| mel
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I'm sorry I don't know
any links to send you to, MB, but I will keep my eyes open for
some!...
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| mel
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One reason I don't know
any is that I'd NEVER heard of dyspraxia until YOU mentioned
it....
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| mel
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And I couldn't find it
in ANY dictionary....
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| mel
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NOW I understand
it...
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| mel
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and THANKS to you,
MB---there in Australia!!!
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| cup |
Have frostbitten fingers
lost their haptic sense?
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| mel
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YES, GOOD USE of
"haptic," cup!!!
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| mel
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My wife Carol does
Healing Touch, so this is one of her FAVORITE
words!
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| mel
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MB needs to know: I
have just finished the first draft of an adventure story tied into
the Chanukah story. The main characters are 10 and 13 years of age.
When I did a word count, it came up as an odd 4000 words or so. I'm
not sure whether to cut it to fit more of a picture book size, or
lengthen it for a middle grade book. Or are there books this length
(like MAGIC TREE HOUSE)?
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| mel
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First, MB, to CUT it to
picture book size would mean a total of NO MORE than 1000
words--YIKES!...
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| mel
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AND, I don't think
story matter that suits 10 to 13-year-olds would SUIT a picture
book....
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| mel
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Perhaps you could take
clues from the MAGIC TREE HOUSE books,...
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| mel
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and fashion yours
accordingly, to work like THOSE do...
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| mel
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I think I wouldn't
LENGTHEN it for now, but try to make it the BEST book for 10-13s
that you can at the length it is.
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| mel
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GA wants to know: In
your 3/15 newsletter, you mention that writers should not submit
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| clips atttached
but instead should use (2) rubber |
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| access. I
understand the difficulty with staples but |
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| be easier for
editors than simply removing ONE |
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| mel
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VERY GOOD and LOGICAL
question, GA!...
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| mel
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First of all, I DON'T
recommend paper clips because...
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| mel
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I've heard editors say
they don't LIKE them--most of the editors I've
heard....
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| mel
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Secondly, the REASONS
they don't like them are that they're HARD to deal
with....
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| mel
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An editor will take a
rubber band and slip it down on their wrist--quite
easily....
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| mel
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But what do you do with
a paper clip, where do you put it?...
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| mel
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This may sound trivial,
but editors deal in MICROSECONDS in pursuite
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| mel
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pursuit, that should
be...
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| mel
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of their OVERWHELMING
schedule....
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| mel
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So ANYthing that will
save them time and motion will FAVOR YOU, the
writer....
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| mel
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PLUS, paper clips can
slip OFF EASILY,...
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| mel
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and DO DAMAGE when
going through postal machines--damage to the MANUSCRIPT. THAT is ALL
why I recommend the soft, complete-circle, non-damaging rubber
band.
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| mel
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Hope Marston would like
to know: Where can we find help in writing dialogue that fits our
characters. One of my critique buddies pointed out that all of my
characters sound like me. How do I individualize their
conversation?
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| mel
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The GREATEST help in
writing dialogue, Hope,I believe, is...
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| mel
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listening to people
talk....
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| mel
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Especially CHILDREN,
when we write for children....
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| mel
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That will force us to
be LISTENERS,...
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| mel
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and in the listening
process, I think the greatest thing that happens to us
writers...
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| mel
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is NOT that we hear
what their dialogue sounds like,...
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| mel
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but that we OBSERVE
them in general, period....
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| mel
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If you happen upon two
kids in the grocery store whining and begging for this and
that,...
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| mel
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and throwing tantrums
on the floor,...
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| mel
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THAT is an observation,
a TOTAL one....
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| mel
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You'll hear their words
of dialogue, of course,...
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| mel
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BUT you will ALSO KNOW
the CONTEXT in which that dialogue takes place,...
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| mel
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and that context is the
store, the age of the children, the parent with them, the store
manager....
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| mel
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SO that then, dialogue
doesn't become ISOLATED as if it wasn't happenign in real
life....
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| mel
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LACKING observations
like that, I believe, we writers "insert" our OWN
dialogue,...
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| mel
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what WE THINK they'd be
saying, in IMAGINARY scenes in our minds....
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| mel
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So, go to the store
once NOT to buy anything, but JUST to GAWK....\
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| mel
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Or go to some other
place, JUST to be a spectator....
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| mel
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At first, don't even
take a notebook and pencil,Hope....
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| mel
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Just BE there, watch,
listen, absorb....
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| mel
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YOU and your WRITING
will be the RICHER forit!
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| mel
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GMG asked: My question
is a follow-on "pen names": I would like to use a pen name (someday,
that is!) and am wondering how to go about it... I was told to use
your real name in the query letter, but put your pen name on the
manuscript. Is this correct? Should you also mention in the query
that you publish under this pen name? (or would that be considered
presumptuous?) FYI, I do also believe there is a "DBA" (doing
business as) IRS form that can be completed, if the big bucks start
rolling in. Have you heard of this?
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First, GMG, YES, put
your pen name ONLY on the manscript,...
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| mel
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only under the title on
the "by..." line. Put your REAL name everywhere
else...
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| mel
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Editors will UNDERSTAND
then, what your pen name is by WHERE it is used--and not
used....
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| mel
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YES, I've heard of
"DBA" with the IRS....
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| mel
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That is when you have a
kind of "company name" instead of your own name....
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| mel
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If I am Mel Boring, the
man doing business,...
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| mel
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and I call my business
Boring Ideas, I can say my DBA is "Boring
IDeas."...
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| mel
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HAPPY April 15, by the
way!!!...
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| mel
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I've finished our taxes
and got a refund back already!
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| mel
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AS wants to know: I
want to send a query letter to a magazine and my idea for the artice
can
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can be a feature article. In the |
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than in the second. Is it ok if I |
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or is it better to target |
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| mel
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Yes, mention that you
are interested in both, if you want, AS...
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| mel
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Keep THIS in mind: The
editor's prerogative....
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| mel
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The editor is BOSS on a
magazine or in a book publisher's office....
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| mel
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SO don't "second guess"
them; but it's OK to let themn know that. Don't target one option,
be OPEN to BOTH....
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| mel
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and your flexibility in
that can get you SALES, friend!
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| mel
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Hey, I'm 12 minutes
OVERtime!!!
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| mel
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I really must
go...
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| mel
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I'm saving ALL
questions that are submitted but not answered yet, to
use...
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| mel
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in the Q&As of the
Monday Announcements....
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| mel
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THANKS for being
here!!!
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| mel
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I'll see you NEXT
Tuesday!
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