Dan Johnson

Dan | February 23, 2009

Sent my first query letter today. Steeled for a quick rejection. So steeled, in fact, that I just closed Mail because I didn’t want to get the return email before I went to bed.

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Dan | February 23, 2009

I woke up this morning with a bloated feeling in my stomach and a slight dizziness. I shrugged it off as best I could and went into work, where I stayed for an hour or so, unable to think or concentrate. After a few up-and-downs from my desk…yep, food poisoning of some kind. Working [...]

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Dan | February 18, 2009

I swore to myself that I’d start sending out query letters by this weekend. So, count this blog entry as yet another enticement to do so. If I publish it on the Internet, it has to happen!

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Dan | February 9, 2009

I took the train from Sacramento to San Francisco this morning. Well, actually, the train to Richmond, and then another train to SF, but that’s quibbling. In the wintertime, the plains between Fairfield and Martinez are flooded, much like rice paddies in southeast Asia. And, right next to the train, in the middle of the [...]

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Dan | February 4, 2009

As you can see over on the right, I just finished Alice in Sunderland, by Bryan Talbot. That was one of the most brilliant and ambitious pieces of non-fiction I’ve read. Add in the part where it’s graphical - a comic, if you will, and it becomes even more impressive. It took me four days [...]

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