Miss a few days, and miss the title game. Eh, what the hell.

Eco-Quality and Economic Inequality: A Dollars and Sensical Approach to Solving the Climate Crisis.

We need more writey games...

...and of course, much success-ma to Typo!

Found a link to a wonderful column from NYT, In Defense of Purple Prose

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I feel energized after reading it. Exuberance and joy doesn't show up often enough in the stuff I read.

wrod. not that I can concentrate enough to write lately anyway..I have lots of ideas but they're not The One, you know...it's easy to get called away from them.

Can anyone recommend a good non-fiction agent, ideally one who handle serious non-fiction. ("Serious" being a commercial label rather than an indication that other kinds of non-fiction aren't serious. So Allyson's first book was not considered "serious" non-fiction, even though she actually discussed very serious issues very intelligently, while "The Tao of Physics" which is pretty much pure bullshit is considered a classic of "serious non-fiction". So again I'm using "serious" because it is a standard marketing label, used to help bookstores shelve and market books, not as an assertion that a particular kind of non-fiction typically given that label is inherently more serious or of higher literary quality than many books that don't have it.)

Typo, have you done a search on AgentQuery.com? You can do an advanced search where you can narrow down parameters and then if you come up with some names and need opinions on them, I'll be more than happy to check either on Pub Marketplace to see what deals they've made or if I've heard anything about them.

One hundred words:

t vent

Voicemail from the local post office: “I'm sorry no one responded to your complaint sooner. I have spoken to your carrier, and in future packages will be delivered to the apartment complex office, as you indicated you preferred. I apologize for your inconvenience.”

Stop leaving packages leaning against my apartment door, where they can be seen and stolen. Stop folding and mutilating my mail. (I don't know what spindling is, but so far it hasn't been a problem.) And when I indicate my preferred response method is e-mail, don't call me on the phone!

t /vent

Hi Barb. Even with narrowed down parameters I ended up 33 choices. So I've been going through one site and agent at a time to narrow to a reasonable number, and then I will forward to you for checking. Thank you so much!

Since you guys have been around for so very much of this, I figured it apropos that I mention here that after nearly three years, 97,137 words, a lot of tears and angst and more left turns to Albuquerque than Bugs Bunny himself could conceive of, I have finally finished Between Here & Gone, my 1960s-set women's fiction manuscript.

Ima fall down go boom, now.

Yay, Barb!