Need Manuscript Makeover?

<div align="center"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6xaSK8qnsv_fWvmAvqUVTPmk74owrkaLGI6Q9u3qCrAwDtmP5c5_dDDLkFpuIGFn5_95AaP0No4tSAFaUS7OcECUdwmtorxwW4cbdcjiOV4TUFMnP6bDqCpV4V0X7McK8b1cr888x_MI/s1600-h/elizabethlyonbook.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192836897284288466" style="DISPLAY:block;MARGIN:0px auto 10px;CURSOR:hand;TEXT-ALIGN:center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6xaSK8qnsv_fWvmAvqUVTPmk74owrkaLGI6Q9u3qCrAwDtmP5c5_dDDLkFpuIGFn5_95AaP0No4tSAFaUS7OcECUdwmtorxwW4cbdcjiOV4TUFMnP6bDqCpV4V0X7McK8b1cr888x_MI/s320/elizabethlyonbook.jpg" border="0"/></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.manuscriptmakeover.com/">http://www.manuscriptmakeover.com/</a> </div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">My friend, <strong>Elizabeth Lyon's</strong> new book on doing a manuscript makeover is out. Elizabeth helped me with my first novel, <em><strong>A Three-Turtle Summer</strong></em>. Working with Elizabeth is like taking a four-year course in fiction writing from an ivy-league school. If you're a writer, and Elizabeth doesn't live next door to you, get this book and devour it. I did. Oh, and she has other wonderful books on nonfiction writing, book proposals, and marketing. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"></span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">Still no word from <strong>Tom Hanks</strong>. I told <strong>David <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Southwell</span></span></strong>, an author from the United Kingdom, that I joined <strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Facebook</span></span></strong> so Tom would discover my stories. I figure I'm a <em><strong>You've Got Mail</strong></em> kind of writer.</span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">Many writers nowadays would be delighted if their books jumped straight from keyboard to film. A lot of us feel that there is more talking about books than the actual reading of them going on. After all, we're storytellers. We began telling stories around a smokey fire in a cave somewhere, so why should we resist the new technology? I'd never want to see books go away entirely, but there's something very appealing about the medium of film.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"></span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">I have some readers who are just now reading my second novel, <em><strong>As Brown As I Want: The</strong> <strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Indianhead</span></span> Diaries</strong>. </em>That's more than partly my fault because the book was <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">mis</span></span>-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">labled</span></span>. The catalog says it is fiction, but it is really a (hilarious) fictional autobiography. This is the kind of mistake that happens when an author moonlights as her own agent. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Custer thank yous</strong>:<br /><strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Tantara</span></span> Records</strong> (</span></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.tantararecords.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">http://www.tantararecords.com/</span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">, email:info@tantararecords.com ) for permission to use the lyrics to <em>Go My Son</em>. They have a beautiful website with music to suit every taste (well, I haven't seen any headbanger music there, but they have everything else.).<br /><strong>The Comanche Nation</strong> (</span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.comanchenation.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">http://www.comanchenation.com/</span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"> ) for their help with the Comanche language.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">Quote <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">du</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">jour</span></span>:</span></strong></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">"A mob is no less a mob just because it's with you." John Adams, <em>John Adams</em>, HBO special production<br /></span></div><br /><div align="center"></div>