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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Lynda,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I have attached both my generic query letter which got me four months of consideration and a free subscription to The Alaska Quarterly Review, but was finally rejected, and I do not know where to send it next. It has to be altered for every submission.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The story itself has 19 photos placed throughout the story which you probably will not be able to see. Unfortunately, My JAWS does not read all of the wrap-arounds and a few titles, and a sighted person put in all of the photos for me, so I cannot correct them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>At any rate, enjoy, and lose yourself in what it feels like to climb in “The Mountains of the Moon fifty years ago, just before the coup in Uganda, by the brutal dictator, Idi Amin. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Of course, if this goes to the list would appreciate any comments by any others with the perseverance to read this lengthy article.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The book, “Lizard in the <br>Beansauce,” is why I have been less involved with the list lately.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Jacqueline Williams<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Clarity is just questioning having eaten its fill.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> Jenny Xie<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Linda Lambert via Stylist<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 20, 2019 1:03 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Writers' Division Mailing List' <stylist@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> llambert@zoominternet.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stylist] It's a Book Baby and more<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZW>Jackie, I need to ask you to resend it to me. I can’t seem to find it right now – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZW>I’ve had a lot of issues to deal with lately – with programs not working and troubles with my e-mail – freezing up constantly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZW>Thanks. I’d love to read it and respond to you. Lynda<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZW><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>From:</b> Stylist <<a href="mailto:stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org">stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jackie via Stylist<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 20, 2019 3:08 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Writers' Division Mailing List' <<a href="mailto:stylist@nfbnet.org">stylist@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Jackie <<a href="mailto:jackieleepoet@cox.net">jackieleepoet@cox.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stylist] It's a Book Baby and more<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Lynda,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks for the info on all of the editing and marketing you have addressed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>I am in wonderment that you have found one editor that you trust above all others. Several people have edited portions of my African book and each has a different set of editorial remarks on all aspects of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Did you get my attachment, an excerpt, “Climbing the Ruwenzories , circa 1969”?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>I am interested in your response to it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>I know you are very busy and it is long. Too long to send to this list. But thought you might be interested in where I could send it. That since you have pursued publishing in the U.K. Two of my fellow climbers are there, and the third, in New Zealand.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>I have no doubt you will meet your goals as planned.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Much affection,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Jacqueline Williams<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Clarity is just questioning having eaten its fill.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> Jenny Xie<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>From:</b> Stylist [<a href="mailto:stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org">mailto:stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Linda Lambert via Stylist<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 19, 2019 9:02 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Writers' Division Mailing List' <<a href="mailto:stylist@nfbnet.org">stylist@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:llambert@zoominternet.net">llambert@zoominternet.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stylist] It's a Book Baby!<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW>Hi Jackie,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW>I apologize for not getting back to you sooner. I’ve been so pre-occupied and single-focused on getting this book out. Everything else has been on the back burner.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW>Yes, I did receive your information a while ago. Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW>I am one who thrives on change and pivots – so you can imagine that right up to the final hour before publication, my editor and I made changes! I am thankful for such an editor who moves as fast as I do. And, she is able to edit in several languages, and I need that expertise she brings to the table.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW>It is not perfectionism, which I am not at all a perfectionist. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW>But I am one who seeks excellence in every aspect of my life – and that means, doing the very best of which I am capable and never settling for less. So, at last, the book-baby is up and out there and being read now – and I am getting so many comments already and it is only out now for the past 5 days. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW>Right now, I am deep into the promo activities and interviews – first one will be published on the 24<sup>th</sup>. I’ll be sure to share that with the group.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW>But mostly, I am outside working in my flower gardens and enjoying the summer sunshine. Shortly, I’ll be involved with Finishing Line Press as they begin to work on my Chapbook and getting it ready for publication in January. I plan to NOT work on my next book till after the FLP Chapbook is completed. I do have the next book outlined, and that will wait until after the first of the year before I return to it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW>Thank you for the kind comments on the Amazon presentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW>I think the quote you noted is the piece by Wes Sims, my poet friend in KY who wrote it for the book.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW>Yes, I liked that imagery too. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW>Lynda<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-ZW><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><b>From:</b> Stylist <<a href="mailto:stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org">stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jackie via Stylist<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 18, 2019 7:21 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Writers' Division Mailing List' <<a href="mailto:stylist@nfbnet.org">stylist@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Jackie <<a href="mailto:jackieleepoet@cox.net">jackieleepoet@cox.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stylist] It's a Book Baby!<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Lynda,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>The description of your book on Amazon was absolutely beautiful. The way it explained the organization, and how it is compared to a beautiful necklace, was a poet’s description of the book. Did you write it?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Congratulations on your three year “pregnancy” and its fruition.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Jacqueline Williams<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Clarity is just questioning having eaten its fill.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> Jenny Xie<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><b>From:</b> Stylist [<a href="mailto:stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org">mailto:stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Linda Lambert via Stylist<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 16, 2019 5:34 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Writers' Division Mailing List' <<a href="mailto:stylist@nfbnet.org">stylist@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:llambert@zoominternet.net">llambert@zoominternet.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stylist] It's a Book Baby!<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW>Mornin’ writers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW>I am writing to let you know my third book went live on Amazon last night.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW>Star Signs: New & Selected Poems, features 53 poems and 145 pages.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW>Poems in this new book span a period of my publications from 1985 to the present.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW>I carefully selected the poems from my archives – divided them into 4 sections or themes in the book.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW>You can see the book cover and read the description - the book also features a selection of photos – one at the beginning of each section.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW>I worked on this book for the past 3 years, so I feel like I just delivered a long-awaited baby. Relieved and happy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW>Here is the link to the new book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1075265436?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860&fbclid=IwAR1y4Ed23AE5p4mXhaBcBfy1yfN_Vi3V6-HNooar1MR3oJtoxiL7ztKmfgs">https://www.amazon.com/dp/1075265436?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860&fbclid=IwAR1y4Ed23AE5p4mXhaBcBfy1yfN_Vi3V6-HNooar1MR3oJtoxiL7ztKmfgs</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW>My best, Lynda Lambert<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>Lynda’s Authors Page- Amazon:<a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/lyndalambert">https://www.amazon.com/author/lyndalambert</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>Lynda’s Official Authors Page: <a href="http://www.dldbooks.com/lyndalambert/">http://www.dldbooks.com/lyndalambert/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><b><i><span lang=EN-ZW style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><b><i><span lang=EN-ZW style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><b><i><span lang=EN-ZW style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>Lynda’s 2 Blogs:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.lyndalambert.com/">Website & Blog</a>: Walking by Inner Vision – personal blog<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.llambert363.blog/">Scan-A-Blog</a> – A quiet Place of Inspiration, Art, Nature, Literature<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-ZW><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>