T.D. Severin - Award-Winning Medical Thriller Author

  Busy, busy, busy. Got lots of things popping around in the hopper right now. The trick, I've found, is to stay obsessively organized when multiple projects are working. My novel is currently at my publisher, just waiting for the machine to get ready to roll.  Publication date is expected to be around Feb or March 2025.  I'll keep you posted.  Please cross your fingers for me, and I'll do the same for you when yours is ready. The record label, Ripple Music , as always for the last 15 years, consumes a ton of time. But I love it.  I've done a lot of work on query letters, short synopsis, and full synopsis. We'll talk more about that stuff in later posts. In the meantime, I've been outlining and researching the next novel. Love that part. More posts to come. So, while I'm waiting to get to all that, how're you doing with your writing? I'd love it if everyone who pops on over to this blog, dropped a little comment on where you are in your writing, what...

  At the moment, I'm kind of in writing stasis. The novel has been mailed out to my publisher, but I'm waiting for copy edits to come in.  I've done most of the research for the new novel, but haven't begun the actual writing process as I've been too busy taking care of other projects. In the meantime, I found these quotes from your fellow writing peers on the internet and thought I'd share them with you, a way of sharing the anguish you feel about your rewrite. Let me know if any of these resonate with you, and also let me know how you're doing on your rewriting (and rewriting and rewriting.) Tips on Rewriting From Your Peers "At this point, it seems that no matter how far away I get from the work of rewriting (lawyering during the day, playing music at night, watching TV with my son, etc), I am always having thoughts and ideas about changing the bar room scene to this way or revising the dialogue between MC and chick #2 that way. Too often these flash...

I was going to write a post today about the art of writing the novel synopsis, but then I came upon this eloquent article that just says it better than I ever could. I've taken this from FMWriters.com, which I've found to be an excellent source of information. You can find the direct link to this original post: http://fmwriters.com/Visionback/Issue%2015/workshop.htm I hope you find this as helpful for you as it has been for me. And thank you Sheila Kelly for writing it. We'll rejoin later and talk about the two page synopsis versus the longer, full-novel synopsis. You will definitely need them both when submitting to agents.

  I'd like this post to be more interactive than my last several posts. So to do that, I'd like to ask all of you a question. How do you deal with rejection? With my work having just made the rounds through New York, it's a fact of life that not everyone's going to love it. Lot's of form letters will come back, lot's of terse answers and lot's of rejection. We all develop our own strategies for dealing with this. My preferred strategy is blissful denial and unbridled optimism. I've heard of writers who wallpaper their entire room with rejection letters. This, me to seems defeatist and bizarre. I handle my rejections differently. When a rejection note comes, I read it, trying to gleam any useful information that it may contain (if it is a personal letter with direct references to my work. Form letters are of no value) then I file the letter away in a file clearly labeled "Try Again." Now, this might seem Pollyanna or sugar-coated to you, but I...