Thanks for the invite. Keep at it.

Thanks for looking me up, Kristine!

Hi Kristine. YOU have the will and the attitude that will get you published before you know it. I ditto Leighton's comment about you having many works to your credit before you reach my age.

Like you, I treasure my friends and know I wouldn't be here today without them!! I look forward to learning more about your work.
Marta

... and thanks for the invite! :)

Wow, three novels already. Keep writing and thanks for the invite! :-) Sheri

Thanks for the invite...keep at it.

Thanksk for the add, Kristine! And good luck with the books!

Hugs

A
xxx

Thanks for the invite Kristine.

D. K.

Thrilled to be your friend and so sorry about your twin. \write, giving her a voice! something nice--how about something deeply spiritual? just an idea.
all the best.

Hey, Kristine- Good luck! Thanks for the add.

Thanks for the invite! I appreciate your story, and what a wonderful opportunity to keep alive your twin's memory!

best wishes with the book, sorry to hear that you lost your twin.

Thanks for the invitation. I'm sure your sister would be proud to hear you speak so fondly of her.

Thanks for the invite, pal. Keep writing. Best, Bob

Thanks for the invitation. You're in the right place.

Hi Kristine, Thanks for the invite! My sister is my inspiration, too, since she told me to get busy and write. I did, and it sold, so she's responsible! Peg

Thanks for inviting me to be your friend. Unfortunately, getting published sometimes can be a long wait, but it's worth it in the end! At least that's what I've heard!

Thanks for the invite Kristine, life is not fair and I'm sorry to hear of the loss of your twin.

Hi Kristine -- I look forward to seeing your books!

Hi Kristine,
I am sorry for your loss - losing a sister is hard enough (done that) but a twin - special circumstances, special attachments - You are an inspiration. Good luck with finding a publisher. I might suggest one - www.wings-press.com --they are writer friendly and gently edited.
Thanks for the invite and hope to see more of you.
Billie
www.billiewilliams.com

Thanks for the invitation, Kristine. So sorry about your sister. It does seem like creative folks experience an unfair share of tragedy, doesn't it?

Sorry to hear about your twin. I lost a son, so I know the pain. Good luck with your search for a publisher. Ciao, Wolf

Thanks for the invite. Sorry for your loss. You sound like you are about where I am in terms of writing and publishing experience. Synopsis of your novel sounds really interesting. Gonna work in the old "..went down to the crossroads,..." blues music motif at all? I would, because I love the blues so much. Take care, Ed

Hi Kristine, It's good to meet you. It must be difficult to have lost your sister but comforting to carry on the writing that you started together. All the best in being published.
Brenda

Thanks for the invite. Just keep swimming...as Nemo's pal said on Finding Nemo. (I watch a lot of movies with my five year old.)

Thanks for the invitation, Kristine. Your story is very touching--I'm truly sorry about the loss of your twin. Writing is one way to keep that connection with her open, so don't lose heart. And maybe, some day, write about it--it's an experience so few of us know.
All the best.
Kelli

Hi mysterious Kristine of th dark glasses. I'm glad to be your friend and wish you perserveranceand the good of getting published. The business of writing is terrible but the writing part wonderful. Ciao

Hi Kristine,
Good luck with your writing. As an only child, I can't imagine what it's like to have a twin, let alone lose one.

Hi Kristine,
Thanks for the invite! I have to add that as a mother of twin girls, and knowing their bond, I can only imagine the extent of your loss. My thoughts are with you.

Hi Kristine. Thanks for your hand in friendship. It's sad to realize you lost your sister, but your writing, admittedly inspired by Kandee, keeps her living on. A wonder ~ the written word, no? Here's to new found friendship. Cheers!

Hi Christine

It's so sad to hear about the loss of your twin, but excellent that you'll keep her alive in your writing. I wish you the best of luck with your novels.

Jackie

Hi Kristine, and thanks for the invite.

I'm so sorry to learn about the loss of your twin, but it's good that you can keep her alive in your writing. Good luck with your work. Persevere and you will be published!

Hi Kristine - Thanks for the invite, I'm much obliged. I really hope the Biography of You and I works for you, it sounds as if it will be an intense experience, to put it mildly, writing it. Best of luck, Declan

My hands were full (literally and figuratively.) I used to tease people that I went back to work when they were babies just to get rest! I'd listen to people tell me their problems, and I'd be thinking: you think you've got it tough? Hello? ;-)

After about the age of two, they really started to entertain themselves, and they were actually easier than their older sister for that very reason. They just started 7th grade yesterday, and for the first time in their lives, they are in completely different classes. Not a one together. One is okay with it, the other a bit apprehensive...

I never got a tattoo either. I don't have any objection to them, just that I can't figure out any that I'd want to live the rest of my life with. As for your daughter getting one or not - one of the tattoo artist companies that was there had t-shirts that said: "Sorry About Your Daughter." They were mostly tattooing young women, of course.

Sooner or later, she's gonna do what she wants to do anyhow, maybe she just won't want to do it. At least piercing scars aren't so bad, they're usually pretty tiny.

Yep, I would guess that as a parent (which I'm not, so it's only a guess - although I have plenty of friends with kids) there is a constant tension between your kids wanting to indulge in trends and you hoping the trends disappear before they do. It's one of the reasons I'm happier being everyone's favorite eccentric uncle.

Us uncles and aunts do get off a lot easier than you parents, it's true. Then again, we really have to work to maintain our favored status for fear of growing old without kids who feel obligated to look after us - or at least visit the cranky old folks - in our dotage.

Hi Kristine, thanks for the invite.--Dave

Kristine, thanks for the invite and I wish you all the best..Joan

Hi Kristine...Nice to meet you!

Good morning...well my Beatitudes Network is well on the way to showing signs that people care about New Orleans. Do you? I'm trying to help rebuild the public libraries of that great city and my book, The Beatitudes, a paranormal thriller, will be out in the fall. All royalties from its sale goes directly to the NOLA Library Foundation. Email me at lynlejeune@cox.net and see www.beatitudesinneworleans.blogspot.com to sign up for the first copies....

Guess what, Kristine--the rain and mud was so bad, THIS IS ENGLAND, remember, that they stopped the race at 1am. all disappointed. oh well that's the racing game. i am still in the muddy field on my laptop as we speak. i read e mails and try to keep myself as rational as possible. tomorrow we're off on a short vacation. all the best. you sound terrific. great sense of humour!

Hi Kristine, Yeah, I realized to my horror that I had all these new pals on this site and with a few exceptions - you for instance - I haven't had any time to pay many of them any individual attention and I didn't want them to feel like I was just simply collecting friends for the hell of it. I dunno, seemed like the polite thing to do.
Hope you're having a good weekend. It's pretty nice down here at the moment.

Hmmm, getting published. The simple explanation is: found an agent, agent got me published. I got lucky in that I found an agent after being rejected by only nine others. I had finished the first draft of my first book - which was non-fiction - and I just lucked on an agent who loved the book. It then took him 28 rejections before he managed to sell the thing, but it got sold.
The first novel was really lucky. I sent the first draft to a friend who's a writer to ask his opinion of it. I didn't know that he was also an editor at St. Martins. He got back to me saying that they'd like to make an offer on the book. I turned all that over to my agent - since I felt loyal after he'd gone to so much work to sell my first book. Then later, other things happened that caused my agent and I to fire each other, but I got very lucky and found a new agent - who I like a lot - quickly.
It's possible to sell a book without an agent, but it's rare and you are very unlikely to sell it to anyone other than a very small publisher.
As for how to find an agent, it just takes an awful lot of work to find someone you click with. There are a couple of websites that I've been told are very helpful in terms of getting out a lot of query letters at one time - rather than one at a time. Christa Faust, who is on here also, recommended one called bookblaster.com. You need to get to it by first going to scriptblaster.com, then clicking the link to bookblaster (for some reason it doesn't work to go straight to bookblaster.) It costs $99, but can send out 400 or more queries for you - which will save you money and lots of time - in the long run.

Hi Kris,
I love Portland and am always looking for an excuse to hang out there! Any good writing workshops that you know of this fall?
Enjoy our cool weather...I suspect August will be hot as blazes. At least my tomatoes hope so...
/Karen.

Hi Kris,

I got this site from a publisher at a writing conference. I went to a workshop about the internet, my space, etc. in concern for contacting your work with other writers A publisher in Atlanta suggested this site.

How is my space different?

Stay in touch.

Joe

Kris,

I don't have a MP3 player, but I'm using I-tunes from my computer.

Joe

Kristine,
Since you felt it important enough to mention in your personal information, was your sister an identical twin or not. I hope this is not prying, because the train of curiosity and imagination does lead somewhere other than the usual 'yes' 'no' check-the-box either/or kinds of superficial curiosity.
Best,

David

just got back online today. the engine was a tecumseh. They were in third place which was pretty good. they were hoping to have come into first! oh well.

Kristine,

Have been writing for years, but never really published besides articles and that sort of thing.

I am working on my first novel and looking forward to see if I can finish this thing..

LOL

Let's stay in touch

Joe
jlmiller4138@yahoo.com