Our dear friend and client, Mel needs our help today. She's out to win a contest! She's been a very nice girl and incredibly nice. I hope that my posting this will be of service to her. It earns her a good 10 points and hopefully that will be enough to get her higher up the list! So lets wish her all the luck in the world!

HOW TO JOIN? Follow the Rules and e-mail your entry at staff@melon-pop.net with subject “Melon-Pop 2years+ ENTRY”.

RULES - Help us here by registering and commenting here (10 pts) - Comment (must be relevant!) on any entries on Melon-Pop.net, even the old ones (2pts/comment) - Link to the following family blogs in your Blogroll (must be permanent as we’ll be your buddies! ^^): Melon-Pop.net (anchor: Thesh), Fruity-Stars.net (anchor: Smokey), Babyl0ve.us (anchor: Elanah), Bellachino.net (anchor: Luana), Retromuse.com (anchor: Jackie), The-Prime.info (anchor: Optimus Prime), Luvable.info (anchor: Jazzy), Asha.bellachino.net (anchor: Asha), Miss-Glamour.info (anchor: Scarlette) (100 pts) - Write a blog post about this Contest, and add all of the above sites as links (when you link to them, mention that they’re members of Thesh’s family! ) (100 pts) - Invite your friends to help you with the contest by having them post about this Contest! (10 pts/friend) - Place the banner above on your sidebar where it is visible. (3 pts) - Visit Melon-Pop.net and any of the above Family sites EVERY DAY. (1 point per day) - Add ALL of the above Family sites to your Technorati favourites (80 pts) - Add my mama Luana on Twitter: http://twitter.com/luanatf (12 pts) - Subscribe to Melon-Pop.net’s RSS feed by email and also to the RSS of all of the above Family sites. (10 pts)

Keep track of how many Points you earn in a .txt file! On December 15th, send this .txt file to staff@melon-pop.net and we’ll check every point you earned. WHY THIS? Because we feel it’s more fair as we may do mistakes in counting, while we’re sure you won’t do any mistake in keeping track of your earned Points.

PRIZES LIST First Prize: - $10 Cash - .info domain by http://gossipovercoffee.com (1 year) - 1 year FREE domain hosting at Paperlove.info (1GB, with cPanel) - 5 months ad spot on http://poshcraze.info - 2 months ad at http://babyl0ve.us - a free ad space at http://charkvincent.intoxxicated.net - 125×125 free ads for 3months by http://euphoricher.info - pixel button set (32×32 + 88×31) by http://mudflap.starpanda.info - 125×125 ad on Melon-pop.net - a free wallpaper by http://ohsome-ness.net

Second Prize: - .info domain by http://luvable.info (1 year) - Free domain hosting at Melon-Pop.net (100MB, NO cPanel) - 1 month ad on http://stellarspell.info - 2 months ad at http://luvable.info - a free ad space at http://charkvincent.intoxxicated.net - 125×125 free ads for 3months by http://euphoricher.info

Third Prize: - Subdomain hosting at Fruity-Stars.net - 1 ad spot by http://summersorrows.blogspot.com - a free ad space at http://charkvincent.intoxxicated.net

Fourth Prize: - Free hosting at http://number12.co.cc + free ad spot - a free ad space at http://charkvincent.intoxxicated.net

Non-Winning Partecipants: - pixel card by http://mudflap.starpanda.info

As you can see, there’s prizes for all of you! Good luck to everyone!!! :D

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Good evening,

I realize it has been quite some time since I last sent out an update. I do apologize for this, I'll try and be more active soon. As for the updates though, I have quite a few to report. I suppose I'll just go down the list to inform you all of everything.

The first, also one of the most important is CloudlessSummer.info is back up and running. I'll be posting updates on it very good to get it back up to date. So give me alittle time with that. Miss Jennifer and I will also be changing the site design too as well. So expect some changes over there.

The second, MoonlessWinter.info, Cloudless Summer's sister site is also up and running. I am allowing all of my clients and clients only to post their works there is they so wish. You do not have too, but sometimes its nice to see what kind of works you fellow friends write. So feel free to join, post, read, and review each others work! I would love to see what you all put up!

Moving on, we have a few new clients! We have Miss Anna Sydney, Miss Emily Andrews, and our well known help, Miss Jinnienn Okada who some of the older clients already know to be ahuge help around here with us. She's back and this time needing some help of her own, so she's joined the clients group! So welcome them all with open arms! We're so pleased to have them all on board!

Next on the list is the NaNoWriMo. After some time it has finally come to an end. Afew of you have won and a few of you did not. I would like to congratulate all of you who tried, won or not! You all did splendidly! I hope to see you all writing again next November!

Now, as we all know the holidays are coming up, Christmas, New Years and all those lovely holidays! As usual we'll be having the annual Christmas writing event! This event starts December 1st, 2009 and ends January 10th, 2010. The objective is to write a Christmas story, of any kind. A one shot, a novel, anything you want. It doesn't have to be happy, it can be sad or horrific if you so desire. Your writing should be sent to me by January 10th, 2010. I'll try and remind you all as the due date draws closer! Good luck and I can not wait to see what you come up with!

Also, a quick reminder, you are free to write more then one story if you'd like. The more the merrier I always say! lol

Finally, I hope you all have a wonderful holiday! Please do not forget to send me your holiday schedules! I do need to speak with some of you about your chapters so we can review and/or go over them together.

Thank you and have a wonderful holiday and vacation!

Kaylen Phary

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Good afternoon,

While talking to many of you via email, IM, MySpace, etc I have come to the conclusion that quite a few of you will be joining the NaNoWriMo this year. Well, first of all I must say that I'm very excited about this tern out! Last year only a few of you joined but this year almost all of you are.

Now, for those of you who don't know, the NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. It lasts thought the month of November, and your goal is to write a 50 thousand word novel from scratch. You can write about anything you so desire. The object is to get you all writing! The writing for this novel doesn't have to be perfect, or even close. It can be messy and have no plot if you so wish. The basic idea of NaNoWriMo is just to get you all writing, to get your ideas down on paper and your minds working again.

By now I'm almost certain you are wondering why I'm talking to you about this. Well, I'd like to invite more of you to join the NaNoWriMo this year.

If you do decide you join I'll gladly be your writing buddy. My account is here. So do not hesitate to add me as your writing buddy, I will do the same dear. :) I hope to see you there!

Kaylen Phary

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Good evening,

I realize it hasn't been too long since my last update, but I've been working on something. The attached is a tutorial giving you most of the steps on how to become a great writer. It has a rather cheesy title but it should give you all the information you need.

The tutorial includes information on where to post your work, how to make sure your work is ready to look for a literary agent, how to find a literary agent, how to submit a query letter, etc. and much, much more. This is basically a safe guild and tutorial all in one. It tells you some things to be careful of and gives you some advice.

Now, so I don't get so many emails explaining everything, I'll answer all common questions now,

1. Why did you write this?

I wrote this because I get many, many questions about when people can look for literary agents and similar as well as if I know of any writing contests. These two categories of questions are why I wrote the tutorial.

Often, people don't realize that there is more to a literary agent and contests, etc that they don't see.

For example: Did you know that a literary agent is NOT a publisher? Rather, the literary agent is the person who is the go between you and the publisher.

Another example: Did you know that by submitting your work to contests that often you are giving up your rights to the written work? Hard to believe they don't tell you this isn't it?

2. What information does this tutorial include?

The tutorial includes all of the following, in order,

- A Basic Introduction
- The Good News on Writing
- The Bad News
- What your motives should be and How you should look at writing. What literary agents don't like in writers.
- Who and Where you should and shouldn't share your work
- Finishing the book
- What literary agents are for, what they like, how to get one, what to do and what not to do.
- Before looking for a literary agents, these are things you need to look over and consider
- Where you can find literary agents, what you're looking for, etc
- What the query letter should include and not include
- Waiting
- When you find an agent who is interested
- Waiting
- When the agent wants to see more
- Waiting
- When the agent or agents call

That's a quick run through of everything and it should give you a very basic outline of what the tutorial entails.

3. Are all parts of it important?

Simply put, yes

4. Do you expect us to read it all?

Yes - ALL of it.

5. Why?

I intend to give you a test on it. All information in there is very, VERY important. Its all stuff that you need to know. As for why I should test you on it, its really very simple, I need to be sure that what I'm telling you isn't going in one ear and out the other. I know some of you are very stubborn and like to do things regardless of what I say. If you choose to do this its your fault, but if this test will make you think then maybe I can keep you from doing something stupid that may ruin your career - yes, this is very possible.

6. I feel like this was directed at me....?

It should because it is. This tutorial was written with each of you in mind. You have all done stupid things and why did you do these things? Its simple, you are out of the fame of your book being known and you weren't thinking, or you simply decided not to talk to me about it first - then you wonder why I get mad.

7. You just said that we don't talk to you about our decisions, its our book, we don't have to.

Since I am your beta reader, even if at the moment I am not beta reading any of your works. I am still your beta reader. My job isn't just only help you make have good grammar in your work, my job is to make sure you get where you want to go with your book.

Basically, a beta reader is your first agent. Their job is to give you advice to help you get your career on the right track. If you choose not to listen to your beta reader because of ignorance or your simply believe that they are wrong, then why not beta-read the book yourself too? Why not look up all the information you need on publishing by yourself also?

A beta reader wants to HELP you, not be used by you. Please, do NOT say that you listen to every word I say, there are only two of you whom I can honestly say have listened since day one. The rest of you do otherwise and make decisions entirely on your own, you do things I do not recommend, or you do something and blame me when it goes wrong. If you choose not to listen to what I advise, then that's your loss and I will not be held responsible for your actions.

See, I am your agent, no, not your literary agent, but close enough. The fun thing about me though is the fact that I have much more tolerance then a literary agent. A literary agent will without a doubt quit being your agent if you do things without their knowledge, go forward without them, or use them to get where you want to be. They may like their job but they aren't tools like your pencil and paper. We do not wish to be treated as such either.

So think about it this way, if you can't even take my advice in the writing business, what in heaven's name makes you think you'll listen to a literary agent. If you think they're wrong, you simply don't listen to them. Instead you'll go off and do your own thing regardless of what they say. In the end, the agent will leave you and you'll be at the bottom of the pit with a bad name. It will be much, much harder to find another literary agent after that. Why? Because without a doubt that literary agent that quit will have told every agent they knew about you. Those agents will go on to tell others and believe me, a literary agent never forgets the name of a person like that.

So dears, think about that. Since many of you I know have not.

8. If your clients are like you said above, why do you keep them?

Often I do not as I don't have the patience for it. I do though believe in giving people a chance to live and learn. If you screw up on my watch though then I will drop you like a hot rock. Its not my job to help you get back on your feet - I'm sorry.

Now, I hope that answers all of the basic questions. If anyone has any questions, which I'm sure you do, feel free to send me an email reply. After you all read the tutorial I'm sure you'll have more questions then I'd believe. So even if you think it may be a stupid question, go ahead and ask. :) Its better to ask and be safe then not ask and screw up.

Sincerely,
Kaylen Phary

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Good Afternoon,

It's been some time hasn't it? Well, I must sincerely apologize. I have been in Spain for the last few months. Since I started a new college this year I didn't know about the trip, so it was rather unexpected. Seeing as how my laptop has been in the shop, I wasn't able to bring it with me so I had no computer access. I do apologize.

I am home now but there will be another trip in January or February. I'm not sure where we're going as I haven't yet been able to find out the details. I'll inform you of whats going on as I find out myself.

Moving on, so it seems a lot has happened while I've been gone. I am replying to emails as fast as I can and hopefully you should hear from me shortly. If you don't, then you may want to send your message again.

Now, some of have asked, 'what happened to your website?!' Well its down at the moment. Apparently my host is having some unexpected problems with her host. So the site may be down for just a little while. I will inform you when it is back up. Until then, don't worry about it, I already know about the problem.

Finally, I have sent some of your reviews and some of you I have not heard from. For those of you who haven't sent me your monthly updates I do need to hear from you please. Also, some of you have yet to turn in your worksheets. For those of who have don't worry about it, I have them (if you're not sure if I have it or want to check, feel free to send me a message).

In closing, I will be putting a hold on all reviewing. Please do not send me anymore until I finish some of the ones I have. I should be allowing chapters to be sent in again by the next update., I shall let you know then.

Again, sorry I basically died on you all. It was unintentional. I hope all of you have had a good start with school and I hope to hear from you soon! :) Have a wonderful day.

Kaylen Phary

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