Patricia Volonakis Davis's Blog

• Part II - I am No Longer a Person; Now I am Officially a Writer: Getting the Literary Agent

  May 21, 2009

  •   Now that you have your newly-edited manuscript down to 143,122 words, (not including the 36,310 words of the ‘Back Section’ which includes recipes, a guide to additional reading, a history lesson, a wine list, and other information you deemed pertinent to your readers as addendums to your manuscript), you start looking for a book publisher. The only problem there is that you have no idea ...
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• I am no Longer a Person- Now I am Officially a Writer

  May 6, 2009

  •                                                                           I am no Longer a Person; Now I am Officially a Writer May 2009 marks two years since I wrote my first blog , which was on VOX.com. These two years have been an extraordinary writing journey for me. I started ‘blogging’ because my literary agent ...
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• Top Ten Reasons to Go to a Bookstore Instead of a Bar in Trying Financial Times

  January 27, 2009

  • During the Great Depression, the local bar was always the last business in town to go under. And while it’s very tempting to have a drink (or the whole damn bottle) while reflecting on our lowered home values, our loss of income, and our held-hostage tax refunds, here are ten reasons, in descending order, why you should go to a bookstore, instead:Reason # 10:You don’t look ‘desperate’ ...
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