Jennifer Parker

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catching the wave

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 4:05 pm
It was a couple of weeks ago when my husband told me about this new “wave thing” from Google. “It’s supposed to take the place of email.” What in the what? Nothing can ev...
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what i'm reading

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 11:07 am
What I’ve read recently: Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen I wanted to love this book for many reasons. First, it is the latest (and the last one to be read by me) of the Sarah Dessen book...
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thanks!

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Oct 3, 2009, 12:40 pm
Thanks to everyone who voted for me! I came in 3rd, which means I’m in the drawing for a 50 page critique.
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feeling helpful?

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Sep 29, 2009, 2:45 pm
…then vote for me here! I’m Entry #1 in case you’re wondering.
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Examiner.com (i'm required to capitalize)

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Sep 28, 2009, 8:45 am
I’ve got a new “gig”. Have you ever wondered about the state of Fort Worth charter schools? Curious about charter schools in general? You’re in luck! I’ve signed on as...
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what i did on my flucation

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Sep 27, 2009, 12:55 pm
One member of my family escaped the virus that held the rest of us hostage this week. And boy, was he ever proud of it. I guess he deserved to sit this one out since he is the kid with asthma, and has...
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bee leave

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Sep 23, 2009, 2:49 pm
The odds are stacked against you. The market’s flooded. It’s too hard. You’re more likely to be struck by lightning. You can’t make any money. ——- It could ha...
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catching fire, writing odds and ends…necessarily in that order

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Sep 21, 2009, 7:59 pm
Whew! That was a long title, my goodness. Let me take a breath… ‘kay. catching fire On my fifteen last Friday I mentioned that I read Catching Fire. That wasn’t a lie. I did, and ...
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fifteen for friday 9/18/09

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Sep 18, 2009, 10:01 am
soggy Texas edition These monsters range in size from 3 to 6 inches in diameter 1.  It has been raining/overcast/blah outside for a week…this is not normal and makes me feel that something mo...
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guest blogger: jenny martin, librarian extrodinaire

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Sep 14, 2009, 1:29 pm
When Jen asked me to post about advice I’ve gleaned from writers’ groups, I wasn’t sure what suggestions to give. After all, as a writer, I’m a novice. I have zero expertise to offer on the me...
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blogman award!

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Sep 14, 2009, 1:00 pm
This is my first ever Blog award!  Jim Harrington posted it to me (and four others) on his blog last Friday. Apparently, “It’s the result of a discussion about what the acronym BLOG stands f...
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fifteen for friday 9/11/09

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Sep 11, 2009, 12:45 pm
During the first Gulf War I remember being safe in my parent’s home, watching eerie green missiles arch over a night sky on T.V.  I wasn’t worried.  I felt for the troops and wrote lette...
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punky mcpunkerton

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Sep 10, 2009, 5:31 pm
If anyone has a specific question about writing queries, ask away and I’ll point you in the right direction…but for now I’m a little tired of the subject.  Yes, I know that I said t...
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again with the queries?

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Sep 9, 2009, 10:09 am
yes. again. If you read this blog because you are a newish writer, like myself, then this post is for you.  If you’ve been querying endlessly and never seem to get a bite, this post is for you as ...
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spotlight: aq connect

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Sep 8, 2009, 2:01 pm
Agent Query Connect is a website billed as “the internet’s most interactive social networking community for the publishing industry”.  I don’t know for a fact that it’s...
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all the time in the world

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Sep 8, 2009, 1:10 am
“I glanced out of the window at the poor peasants who could not or would not shell out the sixteen dollars to tour Elvis’ earthly digs.  They stared back at our privileged group.  As I w...
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the hunger games

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Sep 5, 2009, 11:11 pm
Yeah, I know World Without End is not YA, but it makes a really good bookend If you read my blog regularly, you know that I read a lot of books.  A LOT.  For me to say that The Hunger Games by ...
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fifteen for friday

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Sep 4, 2009, 5:34 pm
flu-like symptoms and super tweet edition 1. Ah, fever…chills how I hate thee. 2. What Ann Curry tweeted earlier: “Here we go. Last week of August flu cases rose sharply. H1N1 is believe...
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to tweet or not to tweet….

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Sep 2, 2009, 12:08 pm
That is a question crossing a lot of minds these days.  My husband talked me into joining late last May.  He hasn’t made a comment SINCE May.  I, on the other hand have had 267 – one-hu...
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let me explain

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Aug 31, 2009, 2:35 pm
Okay, okay…I will explain that last cryptic post.  If you clicked on it you would…well, never mind.  It still wouldn’t make much sense. I was just messing around with my camera...
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moving pikchas

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Aug 31, 2009, 11:54 am
Jen Learns Something New
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fifteen for friday 8/28/09

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Aug 28, 2009, 10:41 am
Here it is!  The much awaited return of fifteen for friday! 1.  School is in. 2.  Yesterday I noticed three blooms on my flower.  Normally it only has two, and when I see another about to bloom ...
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emerson said it best

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Aug 27, 2009, 1:56 pm
Dear to us are those who love us… but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us ne...
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oh yeah i did

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Aug 25, 2009, 11:36 am
The self-interview is a rare occurrence.  If thought through fully, one would hardly see the benefit of asking one’s self questions and then answering them…oneself.  Half the stuff I get...
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ahhhhh…. school, glorious school

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Aug 24, 2009, 10:00 pm
The dogs seemed uncharacteristically happy when I came home from dropping the kids off to school this morning.  Lola hopped around wagging her tail and spinning in the only way a barrel tummied, bow-...
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awkward

Jennifer Parker posted an article on - Aug 12, 2009, 12:36 pm

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