tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post6008448533515680256..comments2024-02-27T03:36:20.256-07:00Comments on Krista Van Dolzer: Blog BlingKrista Van Dolzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08830193414560232842noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-83527502765490179652011-04-19T14:39:51.417-06:002011-04-19T14:39:51.417-06:00Wow, Kelly, what a nice critique partner you are, ...Wow, Kelly, what a nice critique partner you are, spending so much time reading a manuscript you've ALREADY READ ONCE. That writer must really owe you;)Krista Van Dolzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08830193414560232842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-52651232140036041032011-04-18T10:20:49.430-06:002011-04-18T10:20:49.430-06:00Ooh, I'm realy late here. I just checked in w ...Ooh, I'm realy late here. I just checked in w Twitter and saw your @mention. I've been so busy reading this awesome story about this girl who's startinga revolution against the techno-elite Wingtoothers, but questions her plans when a cute, clumsy wingtooth boy sees something different, something special, in her. <br /><br />Whew! Thanks for the blog love. You're an awesome query partner yourself!Kelly Brysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08324622421797199560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-19194707977056135302011-03-18T13:11:00.665-06:002011-03-18T13:11:00.665-06:00Thanks, Esther! You've got a pretty cool backg...Thanks, Esther! You've got a pretty cool background yourself:)Krista Van Dolzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08830193414560232842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-36630453317634362932011-03-18T06:15:14.536-06:002011-03-18T06:15:14.536-06:00Hawaiian!! I went to Hawaii two times. I didn'...Hawaiian!! I went to Hawaii two times. I didn't know you were Filipino. Well, you've got a cool background. <br /><br />Congratulations on you award!Esther Vanderlaannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-49183898212759842102011-03-17T21:07:16.577-06:002011-03-17T21:07:16.577-06:00Melanie, there's such a learning curve when it...Melanie, there's such a learning curve when it comes to querying. I sent out about 50 queries for the first manuscript I queried and got exactly one request. So it does get better...eventually. Good luck with your YA historical (with a dash of time travel)!<br /><br />Amy, your two-four sounds like our Chinese jump rope! Interesting that you only saw kids playing it in Hong Kong, not mainland China. (Then again, I haven't seen kids playing Chinese jump rope since I was a kid, so maybe it's a generational thing. Maybe they were playing it in mainland China, too, while you were living in Hong Kong.)Krista Van Dolzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08830193414560232842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-7173669867602077382011-03-17T20:39:47.873-06:002011-03-17T20:39:47.873-06:00LOL, Krista, here I was about to comment and then ...LOL, Krista, here I was about to comment and then I read a comment addressed to me! That has never happened to me before. :) Well, I don't know if we're talking about the same thing, but in Hong Kong we played a game we called two-four with a long elastic band that two people strung around their ankles in a big loop. Is that called Chinese jump rope here in America? That is too funny. I don't know if it's originally Chinese or not, but we did play it there. :) (And while living in Mainland China I never saw kids playing that game, so go figure....)<br /><br />I came by originally to say congratulations on your blog awards, and that it was fun to read all the facts about yourself. I knew you were adopted and I knew your grandfather was Filipino, but I didn't realize you were also biologically part Filipino. How cool!<br /><br />Okay - really long comment. :)<br /><br />AmyA.L. Sonnichsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11358456786727534289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-87755467173884718702011-03-17T18:37:18.691-06:002011-03-17T18:37:18.691-06:00Querying is... ok. It's YA historical (or more...Querying is... ok. It's YA historical (or more appropriately time-travelling).Melanie Stanfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00065112319140571241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-87433425624043105112011-03-17T10:34:25.070-06:002011-03-17T10:34:25.070-06:00Jemi, some days I'm just thrilled I remember y...Jemi, some days I'm just thrilled I remember yesterday at all:)<br /><br />Kayeleen, I remember those tricksy Chinese jump-rope/ankle-cuff things! Now that I think back on them, I can't help but wonder, are/were they really Chinese? <br /><br />(Amy, care to chime in on the subject? Do you even know what we're talking about? (For those of you who don't know and just happen to be reading this comment, Amy (www.alsonnichsen.blogspot.com) spent quite a few of her growing-up years in China, and then she lived there as an adult for seven or eight years as well. Pretty cool, don't you think? (The manuscript she's just about ready to query is about an American teenager who comes back to the States after living pretty much her whole life in a small Chinese town, which, I think, she's more than qualified to write about.)))<br /><br />Melanie, hi! Nice to meet you! I hope your querying's going well. What genre is your manuscript?Krista Van Dolzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08830193414560232842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-44957045493166230672011-03-17T09:43:48.588-06:002011-03-17T09:43:48.588-06:00Hi- I've just spent the past couple of days re...Hi- I've just spent the past couple of days reading through your blog- it's really great! I'm also a mormon mother/writer (who also went to BYU) doing the querying thing right now (when I get a break from my four kids) so it was cool to read about someone else going through the same things! I love the agent interviews you have. Keep it up! <br />Melanie Stanford (you can check me out at daydreamertowriter.blogspot.com)Melanie Stanfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00065112319140571241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-15049172774306261692011-03-16T21:19:06.183-06:002011-03-16T21:19:06.183-06:00I remember a lot of elementary school. There was t...I remember a lot of elementary school. There was the kissing tag season (I was never tagged.) There was the chinese jumprope/hopscotch/jacks season. There was the weird girly phase in which the girls would stay in the classroom and do hair or fake sing into hairbrushes. Those were good times.Kayeleen Hamblinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652280450104899423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-74237009218243012392011-03-16T20:08:33.690-06:002011-03-16T20:08:33.690-06:00Some days I'm just thrilled I remember element...Some days I'm just thrilled I remember elementary shcool at all :)Jemi Fraserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02214408467456320167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-3583258772947432652011-03-16T19:43:53.100-06:002011-03-16T19:43:53.100-06:00Oh, Pam, you must be a must better jump-roper than...Oh, Pam, you must be a must better jump-roper than I am, then. We never quite graduated to double dutch:) (Although I always wanted to...)<br /><br />Kris, I remember elementary school with startling clarity. I don't know why I'm wasting my time writing YA - I need to be writing MG and chapter books!<br /><br />Mary, I'm pretty sure I type as fast as I do because of my writing. They first started teaching us how to type in third grade, and that also happened to be the same year I started writing, so I was typing on the computer A LOT. Nothing like a little repetition for teaching a repetitive skill:)Krista Van Dolzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08830193414560232842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-47029448504871990022011-03-16T19:04:34.501-06:002011-03-16T19:04:34.501-06:00120 WPM? That's craziness.
Congrats on the re...120 WPM? That's craziness. <br />Congrats on the recognition bling. Love it.Marybkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12013291291298167627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-86887384995220403902011-03-16T17:23:13.045-06:002011-03-16T17:23:13.045-06:00Wow, you remember a lot more of grade school than ...Wow, you remember a lot more of grade school than I do. Congrats on your award--you deserve it!Kristine Asselinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18257286523945921891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-1346410041019244722011-03-16T17:18:22.087-06:002011-03-16T17:18:22.087-06:00Aww, thank you so much! You have no idea how much ...Aww, thank you so much! You have no idea how much that made my day. :) By the way, 3rd grade was my year of the jump rope too--I learned how to double dutch that year!Pam Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09872183610393667619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-6102817720654726632011-03-16T17:11:01.449-06:002011-03-16T17:11:01.449-06:00You're welcome, Mindy:)
There's no "...You're welcome, Mindy:)<br /><br />There's no "let" about it, Myrna. More like "beg," "bribe," "cajole." Your feedback has been invaluable. I really, really appreciate it.<br /><br />You're welcome, Ben! Your comment(s) made me laugh:)Krista Van Dolzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08830193414560232842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-58159985918980333592011-03-16T15:00:56.862-06:002011-03-16T15:00:56.862-06:00Oh dang. I just misspelled bee. And I would have m...Oh dang. I just misspelled bee. And I would have misspelled misspelled if my browser didn't underline it. *sigh*Ben Spendlovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17715176546668792509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-878432425725578372011-03-16T14:59:42.015-06:002011-03-16T14:59:42.015-06:00Hey, that's me! Thanks!
I bombed out of the s...Hey, that's me! Thanks!<br /><br />I bombed out of the spelling be on the word entourage. I'd never heard it before, but it sounded French. I remember sticking a J in there somewhere.Ben Spendlovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17715176546668792509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-56088556037904269822011-03-16T14:38:06.827-06:002011-03-16T14:38:06.827-06:00Thanks, Krista, for the award and for letting me r...Thanks, Krista, for the award and for letting me read Bob.Myrna Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13534358757278599925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250988928163509961.post-87649725082970039662011-03-16T13:40:21.813-06:002011-03-16T13:40:21.813-06:00Awwww.... I'm blushing :)Awwww.... I'm blushing :)BBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13750774359232145507noreply@blogger.com