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Nope…this isn’t Texas

Three guesses…

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Anybody want to guess what that is outside a local burger joint here in Louisville, KY? Ron wants one. Seems even thoroughbred horse poo isn’t welcome inside this White Castle.

Back in Texas, we don’t have horses in our yard – just the Boogie Woogie Beagle Boys. Evidently, Ron doesn’t want their poo on his shoes either!

Goodness only knows what the younger woman from Chi-Town will encounter next. Stay tuned.

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Our Newsletter April 2010

News You Can Use!

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A sneanightstandk peek at our most recent newsletter:

Change

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”

~Arnold Bennett
(British novelist, playwright, critic, and essayist, 1867-1931)

Wonder what’s been happening around Maison Lambert-Luster?  Give us a click and read the current newsletter.

News You Can Use – April 2010.

Starting the new year/decade the right way!

We took to the streets of Paris to get this decade started the right way.  We had a magical evening on the steps of Sacre Coeur.

So Who Really Needs a Literary Agent?

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Apparently Gayle and I do!

(Posted by Ron)

Hey there everyone.  Did we fall off the face of the earth?   Not exactly, but sometimes it feels like that.  In fact, we took a hiatus from the blog so that we could spend the time preparing agent query letters and book proposals.  Next will be sample chapters.  Yes, it’s time to finally get to writing this book we’ve been talking about for so long.

It’s funny how agents don’t think like me.  I believe this May-December topic is so important and timely that literary agents should be falling all over themselves to represent us.  It doesn’t seem to be this way – yet that is.  We have learned something about rejection letters, however.  They run the gamut from no response at all, to “It’s intriguing, but I’m not wild about it, and  to “thanks, but that’s not what I’m focusing on right now.”  The last agent rejection letter tells us that (at least some) agents actually read our query.

She had some very thoughts for us to consider as we continue our search.  The one that really stuck with me is that we need an agent who is passionate about our May-December subject and us as authors.  Makes sense to me.

Today I needed to see my work in print somewhere; blogging seemed like a good idea. We know you are out there. You continue to come to the blog whether we have an agent or not!   We know you are interested and are looking for guidance in your relationships.

So, dear readers, thank you for hanging around even when new material was not forthcoming.  We appreciate your interest.  We’ve even gotten some agent information from a few of our clients/friends/readers.  Before I bring this short note to a close let me say this.  There are some of you who know literary agents.  Some of you may even be agents.  If anything in this blog has been of interest or help to you , please let those agents know about us or  tell us about them.  We will be happy to make the contact.  You can email any such information to me at ron@maydecembersecrets.com.  I’ll be glad to take it from there.  In the meantime, fingers crossed we keep moving forward.  Just like we do in our relationship – one day at a time.

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