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Cindy Baldwin: Your Beginning Is A Promise—So Don't Break It!

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Tuesday, August 30, 2016. Your Beginning Is A Promise—So Don't Break It! I have the privilege. Of being a middle grade mentor for Brenda Drake's incredible Pitch Wars contest this year. The revision period has only just begun (and I'm so. Excited for both of my mentees! To keep in mind as I revise my own books! And is all about presenting your character before. They've experienced the life-changing plot turn that happens about 25% into your book. The beginning of your book is a promise to your reader.

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Cindy Baldwin: Cast Your Vote In The Tenth Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest!

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Friday, October 28, 2016. Cast Your Vote In The Tenth Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest! Long ago, in a land far far away, my now-husband and I were young college students flirting with the idea of taking our casual friendship a step further. It was October, and he invited me to his parents' house one weekend just before Halloween. "I bet I can carve a better pumpkin than you," he boasted, in the true spirit of our very competitive flirtation. But for this year? Just ONE vote per person. no cheating! Any co...

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Cindy Baldwin: October 2016

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Sunday, October 30, 2016. You might be glad the Lord made you wait". One night last year,. I sat in our blisteringly hot non-air-conditioned apartment during the hottest summer ever recorded in Portland's history, utterly miserable. I'd started the summer off with the most exciting period in my writing life—after a year and a half of querying agents, the second book I'd queried had gotten a bunch of glowing agent requests right out of the gate. This is it. You Might Be Glad The Lord Made You Wait. I star...

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Cindy Baldwin: November 2016

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Saturday, November 5, 2016. And The Winner Is. Guys Oh my gosh, guys. This is the first year EVER that I have forgotten to publish the results of the pumpkin contest when I said I would! The only thing I can blame it on is the fact that this has not been a very good week for my fibromyalgia'd-up brain (I have somehow locked my keys in the car twice in the last two weeks, after not doing it since high school? Labels: pumpkin carving contest. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Best New Reads of 2016! The World Is...

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Cindy Baldwin: December 2016

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Wednesday, December 28, 2016. Best New Reads of 2016! 2016, man. It's been a year. Like many of you, 2016 has put me through the ringer in more ways than one. But there's also been some exceptionally good things—chief among them, the number of really fantastic books I've read. In the last year I've read a total of 87 books, 19 of which were unpublished books I read either as a critique partner or as a Pitch Wars mentor. (I've definitely never had a year with so much beta reading before! And I can't wait.

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Cindy Baldwin: I love sharing your friendship. I don't want to share your germs.

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Saturday, September 24, 2016. I love sharing your friendship. I don't want to share your germs. How I dress for church in the fall/winter. Months to try to stay cold-free. For many years,. I've shared a post about the importance of staying home when you're sick as soon as the first autumn colds start to circulate. As a cystic fibrosis patient, my immune system is compromised, and I have a tendency to pick up any viruses within a hundred-mile radius—at least, that's what it often feels like! 2 Be honest&#...

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Cindy Baldwin: Interview: Shari Green, Author of ROOT BEER CANDY AND OTHER MIRACLES

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Friday, October 14, 2016. Interview: Shari Green, Author of ROOT BEER CANDY AND OTHER MIRACLES. Today I have the incredible privilege of sharing a chat with Shari Green, author of the debut middle grade novel-in-verse ROOT BEER CANDY AND OTHER MIRACLES. Thanks to an Amazon goof, I had the chance to read this a little bit early, and it was so. Good Definitely one of my favorite reads of 2016! Here's Shari's summary of the book:. It will come to pass. That a stranger from the sea. I'm a big fan of verse no...

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Cindy Baldwin: Rewriting Is The Heart Of Writing

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Tuesday, August 23, 2016. Rewriting Is The Heart Of Writing. I've been writing for as long as I can remember,. And I got serious about writing novels many years ago. For a long time, I figured I was ahead of the curve: I wrote my first novels as a teen, had studied what it took to be published, read voraciously and had learned to apply techniques from my favorite books to boost the quality of my own prose. But there was a big, huge part of the puzzle that I was missing that whole time:. The new section w...

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Cindy Baldwin: January 2017

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Sunday, January 8, 2017. The World Is Wide Enough: Dealing With Jealousy In Your Writing Life. Let me just start this post. Off with a little honesty: generosity and the celebration of others' successes is not, shall we say, my strong suit. I am by nature a jealous person; I tend to have a lot of knee-jerk envy even in situations where envy is abjectly ridiculous. When I was on the agent hunt, I felt envious of friends who found agents before I did, or even people I didn't know. But if that editor offere...