MarcyKate Connolly

writer, composer, arts administrator

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No Man’s Land No Longer: “New Adult” Fiction

You can’t see it, but I’m bouncing up and down right now. That’s how dang excited I was to read about St. Martin’s Press sponsoring a contest for “New Adult” fiction. Yes, you read that right: New Adult. Here’s what the editorial assistant running the contest had to say about what it is… fiction with [...]

Progress Report: NaNoWriMo Day 8

TOTAL # OF WORDS WRITTEN THIS WEEK: 13,693 Wow, this is the most I’ve written in one week in, well, ever. At least since I began recording it over the summer. Happy Dance! Of course, I realize most of the words I’m writing this month will be tossed or rewritten when all is said and [...]

Free Stuff Friday: Fun with Flash

Free Stuff Friday is back! (Cue the cheers!) For those of you who don’t know, I love websites. I love to create them, design them, and obsessively tweak them. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that I’ve been playing around with flash lately. I don’t know a lot about how to make [...]

Offline Agents in a Digital Age

My online critique forum has an interesting discussion thread going on at present about agents and websites.  It’s making me muse-y.  The initial question posed was what do writers think about agents who only accept snail mail queries and do not maintain a web presence – no email, website, blog, twitter, facebook, etc. My first [...]

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