HEIDI RUBY MILLER

I seldom do memes any more, probably because I limit myself to how much time I spend on the internet per day, but Sandy Lender ( read her PICK SIX here ) emailed me to say she'd tagged me for this one, so I took the time to have a little fun. To participate in a meme, you merely answer the questions on your own blog, (and go ahead and post a comment here stating that you've done so!) and tag five to 10 blog owners that you'd like to have play along with us. The idea is to get lots of folks connected and "playing along" to increase our awareness of each other (and to have fun). When you post your answers on your blog, be sure to list the blogs that have participated so far so we increase our presence in the blogosphere. GETTING AWAY WITH IT 1) If you could live for a month in one world or time period from a novel you've read, which would you choose? In the Florida Keys with Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford Black Widow by Randy Wayne White 2) If you could be ...

RESEARCH Yesterday I caught up on submitting and querying my completed projects. I am way behind for 2008 - only 21 subs thusfar. I aim for the 'Buckell 150' each year. While recording my new subs, I went back through to label the one-year non-responders . It was nice to see there were none for March; February only had two; but January had six. I noticed something else during the search back through all of these records: My ratio of email to post subs is 2 to 1 . This would be closer to 3 to 1 if I took out all of the agent queries, partials, and fulls from last year. I suppose it's because I subconsciously place markets into two categories: free, easy, and fast as opposed to paying for postage and traveling to the post office . For good or for bad, I put post-only markets at the bottom of my submissions list, sometimes never even getting to them before the project sells. Anyone else follow this same electronic submission trend? Heidi Ruby Miller , submissions ...