- Do you give critiques to aspiring writers?
- Nope. If I did, that’s all I’d get done. I’m a slow writer, remember?
- Will you give my book/manuscript a quote?
- Nope. I only quote for books I’ve read in full and really, really liked. And right now I have fourteen manuscripts stacked in my living room, waiting to be read, and some of them are six months old. Which means they probably don’t need a quote any more. But if you insist, have your agent send it to my agent. She’ll send it to me. And I’ll put it at the bottom of the stack. For more on this, see my “Confessions of a Reformed Quote Whore” blog post.
- Can you judge a contest that my organization is holding?
- Nope. People like to sue, and if I write a book that has a plot element in it that’s in a manuscript I’ve judged for a contest, I’d have hell on my hands. So I just don’t do it.
- Will you write a book with me?
- Nope.
