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Twelfth Edition, November/December, 2007 Happy Holidays! However you celebrate the winter holiday season, I hope you it finds you happy and healthy and home with those you love. I have a lot to feel grateful for, both in my writing life and my personal life, so I will be trying to show that gratitude by finding ways to help those who are less fortunate. I hope you do, too. I Have a New Agent I'm pleased to announce that Sandra Bond, Bond Literary Agency, has offered representation and I have accepted. She read my Wicked Whitewater manuscript and says its ready to submit to publishers as is (I have my critique group to thank for that), so I'm anxious to see what kind of reception it will get from editors. Sandra will also be working on selling audio and paperback rights for my Five Star books after she markets Wicked Whitewater. I've met her in person and had a few phone call conversations with her, and I'm very excited about working with her. Sandra is my second agent. My first, Barret Neville, had to drop his mystery clients and focus solely on nonfiction due to financial considerations. I understood the decision, and he helped me in my search for a new agent by referring me to other mystery agents he knew. At first, I was discouraged by my need to find a new agent only a year and a half after signing with my first one after a two-year search. It was so hard to find the first one, then I had to start looking again so soon. However, the second search went much quicker (about seven months), and I had to query fewer agents (eight versus ninety) to find one who fell in love with my writing. Publication News The large-print edition of A Real Basket Case will be released by Wheeler Publishing in January, 2008. For those of you who prefer large-print or know someone who does, the ISBN-13 for the large-print edition is: 978-1597226745, and it is available for preorder at Amazon and other online booksellers and your local bookstore. I just submitted an edited version of the sequel, To Hell in a Handbasket, to Five Star Publishing in response to change requests, so I hope to hear from them soon with a contract and publication date. On the short story front, the online Crime and Suspense magazine recently accepted my short story, "The Extra Gift", for their January/February, 2008 issue that has a celebration theme. Also, Colorado Homegrown Tales , a performance group in Denver, selected another of my stories, "Biscuit Connection", to be dramatized by an actor at their holiday program in late December. Upcoming Appearances My next few appearances are listed below, and I hope to meet some of you at these gatherings. Check out my Appearances page for details on these and other appearances.
Experiments in Social Networking I’m fairly new to the Internet-based social networking phenomenon, but I’ve recently plunged in and joined Facebook, Eons (for the 50 and up crowd), and GoodReads. If you are on any of these networks and would like to be my friend, feel free to send me a friend request! On Facebook, I have a profile under “Beth Groundwater”, and I’m a member of the “Reading is Sexy” and “The Amazing Race” groups. On Eons, I’m “AuthorBeth”, and a member of the “Bookoholics” and “Book group” groups. On GoodReads, I have profile under “Beth Groundwater”, and I’m a member of the “mystery lovers” group. Website Updates Go to bethgroundwater.com/Links.html to find new links I’ve added to some terrific fellow mystery authors. If you’re looking for a new mystery author to try, I can’t think of a better place to start. You’ll also find recent posts on my blog , about both successful and unsuccessful recent events and my research trip to Salida, Colorado. Contact Me If you have any questions or topics you want me to address on my blog and/or in my newsletter, please feel free to email me at website07@bethgroundwater.com anytime. I love to hear from readers. |
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