Wednesday, January 21, 2009

By Fronnie Lewis Wednesday, January 21, 2009

A do-over on the oath of office for President Obama

Today Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath of office to President Obama for a second time. Millions of people on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., across the country, and around the world cheered after the swearing-in yesterday of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. It probably did not matter to most of them […]

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

By Fronnie Lewis Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Writing query letters that get noticed by agents

Two agent/bloggers are showcasing query letters from authors that grabbed their attention. The authors who wrote these knockout queries got requests for their manuscripts and later representation. Last Friday Kristin Nelson, on her Pub Rant blog, discussed one of her client’s boffo queries. Also, over at the BookEnds, LLC – A Literary Agency blog, Jessica Faust is posting a series of successful author query letters. Faust not […]

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

By Fronnie Lewis Wednesday, January 21, 2009

President Obama gets down to business

President Obama meets with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in the Oval Office. The parties and celebrations of the historic inauguration of the 44th president are over. (Technical problems on my site blocked me from blogging yesterday. Some of the glitches are still being worked out.) Meanwhile today, President Barack Obama got down to the business of running […]