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	<title>Brian Humek - Persistent Picture Book Writer</title>
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		<title>June 2007 &#8211; submissions</title>
		<link>http://brianhumek.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/june-2007-finally-submitting-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi y&#8217;all,
I am not doing what needs to be done. If I want to be a published picture book writer, I need to submit my pb manuscripts to editors. I haven&#8217;t been doing so. I sent out a bunch in late January or so, but since then, nothing. I cured that June 29th with sending [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianhumek.wordpress.com&blog=774251&post=51&subd=brianhumek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SCBWI Meeting</title>
		<link>http://brianhumek.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/scbwi-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended a SCBWI meeting in June. I seem to only attend the critique meetings. I love them so much. I was inspired to do more with my writing. Praise God for SCBWI and other writers. Without others, I&#8217;d probably never write or submit. I&#8217;ve been getting on the Verla Kay site more now and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianhumek.wordpress.com&blog=774251&post=53&subd=brianhumek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>March &#8216;07 (good month)</title>
		<link>http://brianhumek.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/march-07-good-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pretty cool month. I had a revision request for Buck-a-Bye Baby from an editor at Putnam. She wrote a very nice letter detailing what may need revised. It may take a while, but I need to get this finished.
I also had a personal reject from Standard Publishing that said my story The Treasure on Mulberry Creek had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianhumek.wordpress.com&blog=774251&post=52&subd=brianhumek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feb &#8216;07 &#8211; My website/SCBWI</title>
		<link>http://brianhumek.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/february-2007-website-work-scbwi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Feb 27th. Very late. To be honest, it&#8217;s the 28th. I&#8217;m putting some finishing touches on my website. I&#8217;ve contacted some authors and editors about interviews. I hope to conduct some email interviews and have them published here soon. Making a site isn&#8217;t so easy.
I went to my local SCBWI meeting last Saturday. It was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianhumek.wordpress.com&blog=774251&post=50&subd=brianhumek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beginning of 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year is starting out slow. My stories to Steven Malk were rejected. I received a personal reject which stated I should join SCBWI. I was a little upset because the editor didn&#8217;t read below my signature. Underneath my signature on every query or cover letter it plainly states, &#8220;SCBWI Member.&#8221; Just before sending that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianhumek.wordpress.com&blog=774251&post=47&subd=brianhumek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2006 in review</title>
		<link>http://brianhumek.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/2006-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished out 2006 with a busy month of writing. All of my spare time went into new stories, or actually old story ideas that finally were written. Still unemployed. God is keeping our heads above water. We&#8217;re talking to a local church about the perfect job, church planting that really isn&#8217;t church planting, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianhumek.wordpress.com&blog=774251&post=46&subd=brianhumek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A busy November</title>
		<link>http://brianhumek.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/a-busy-november/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Went to my first local SCBWI meeting in two years. Had some great critiuqes of the story Steven Malk wants to see. He actually requested two of my pbs. I was only able to get one critiqued at the meeting. I had never been part of an in-person critique group before. It was fun.
I spent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianhumek.wordpress.com&blog=774251&post=45&subd=brianhumek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Officially unemployed</title>
		<link>http://brianhumek.wordpress.com/2006/10/31/officially-unemployed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I lost my job at a church in the beginning of August. We had a church planting workshop to attend in late September and arrived back in Dallas, in a state of what I call, &#8220;officially unemployed.&#8221; So as you can imagine, I took this time and wrote and wrote and wrote.
Wrote 11 pbs: Three of these, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianhumek.wordpress.com&blog=774251&post=42&subd=brianhumek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dry spell for me</title>
		<link>http://brianhumek.wordpress.com/2006/07/29/dry-spell-for-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2006 22:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May, June, and July produced one pb manuscript, and that one wasn&#8217;t very good.
During the same time, received my first magazine rejection. More personal rejections &#8220;clever and fun but not strong enough for this maket&#8221; type of rejects. Oh well. Received an answer to a query saying, &#8220;send it.&#8221; I had sealed that query with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brianhumek.wordpress.com&blog=774251&post=40&subd=brianhumek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Candlewick rejection</title>
		<link>http://brianhumek.wordpress.com/2006/07/15/candlewick-rejection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With many apologies, the story I had with with Candlewick was rejected. I had hoped for more.
Lesson learned: It takes a long time to get where I want to go.
back to blog/journal
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