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Welcome to the official website for Jami Gold, paranormal author. She writes paranormal romance and urban fantasy tales, often mixing in elements of suspense and women’s fiction to create “Beach Reads with Bite.” Her stories range from dark to humorous, but one thing remains the same: Normal need not apply.
Of her stories, The Resurrected is completed and ready for submission, and The Treasure of a Dragon’s Heart is going through editing and ready for a partial submission. Check out Books for more information.
Scroll down for some of her recent posts.
January 26, 2012
Writing Stuff
*sigh* It’s happened again. An author has insulted other authors and a huge percentage of readers. Why do people do this? Between social media, the interrelationships of the publishing industry, and the permanent nature of the internet, news of negativity travels far and wide. Sure, we can’t spout unicorns and rainbows all the time, but [...]
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January 24, 2012
Writing Stuff
Recently, the Awesome-Dipped-in-Glitter (TM) Kristen Lamb pointed out that “aspiring is for pansies.” We are not aspiring writers. Aspiring: to have a plan, desire, or hope for something. Writer: a person who writes. If we put those together, that means an aspiring writer is a person who plans, desires, or hopes to write, but doesn’t actually [...]
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January 19, 2012
Writing Stuff
Thank you again to everyone who participated in Pitch Your Shorts with Entangled Publishing. It was a huge success (eleven requests!), thanks to all of you! The editors have finished their dueling (I heard from a reputable source they arm wrestled to settle their disputes), and the following editors have requested these manuscripts: Adrien-Luc Sanders, Senior Editor [...]
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January 17, 2012
Random Musings
Let me start by profusely thanking everyone who bravely participated in Pitch Your Shorts and everyone who helped spread the word about the pitch session. I was out of town all last week for my grandmother’s funeral, and yet the pitch session was a great success because of all of you. Thank you! (I’ll share [...]
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January 12, 2012
Random Musings
We’re in the middle of the Pitch Your Shorts pitch session with Entangled Publishing. If you have a 10-60K word story with strong romantic elements, check out that post for details on how to pitch to six(!) editors. During the pitch session, I’ve had to lock down comments to make sure things run as smoothly as possible. [...]
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January 10, 2012
Writing Stuff
Update: Sorry, this pitch session is now closed. I might do another one at some point, so stay tuned. Thanks for your interest! The Pitch Your Shorts pitch session is officially open! Please read the whole post for all the details. We’ll have at least six (6!) editors from Entangled Publishing visiting the blog between now [...]
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January 5, 2012
Writing Stuff
It was a dark and stormy blog post. *snicker* We’re continuing to prepare for the January 10-16th Pitch Your Shorts pitch session by tackling the issue of story openings. (Check out Tuesday’s post for everything there is to know about pitching.) While the purpose of a pitch is to get a request, the purpose of a story’s [...]
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January 3, 2012
Writing Stuff
This week we’re preparing for the Pitch Your Shorts pitch session coming here January 10th. Even if you’re not pitching this time, stick around. Today we have The Ultimate Guide to Pitch Writing. (Thursday’s post will cover story openings.) The Ultimate Guide to Pitch Writing Pitches fall into many categories, from loglines and elevator pitches to queries [...]
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