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March 14, 2020
If You Do Online Pitchfests—Writer Beware!
Here’s a warning from Victoria Stauss’s Writer Beware about the kinds of publishing predators you may encounter at #PitMad or other digital pitching events. The sponsors of these events always encourage writers to check agents and editors carefully before submitting. … Continue reading →
March 12, 2020
5 Things I Relearned Starting a New Book
It’s been a while since I started a book from scratch. One of my two latest ventures is the third volume in a mystery series I’ve been working on for some time. But the other is new—premise to hand-written scribbles … Continue reading →
February 14, 2020
“Ah, That Was Easy!” — A Quick, Simple Trick to Make Your Quotes Stand Out – by Anastasia Chipelski…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
on The Write Life: As an editor, one of the first pieces of feedback I give to writers is to vary word choice and sentence structure. But there’s one place…
on The Write Life: As an editor, one of the first pieces of feedback I give to writers is to vary word choice and sentence structure. But there’s one place…
February 9, 2020
How to add categories to your book on Amazon
Originally posted on deborahjay:
Have you ever noticed that some books seem to be in lots of Amazon categories, and not just the two KDP allows you to choose when you publish your book? Did you know you can add…
Have you ever noticed that some books seem to be in lots of Amazon categories, and not just the two KDP allows you to choose when you publish your book? Did you know you can add…
February 7, 2020
More Ways for Authors to Get Scammed
Victoria Strauss at Writer Beware continues to let us know when new scams proliferate—in this case, crooks pretending to be literary agents who just LOVE our books! I have actually talked to people who take such come-ons seriously. Check out … Continue reading →
January 31, 2020
The 9 Most Common Mistakes I See on Opening Pages
Originally posted on Annie Bomke Literary Agency:
A while ago when I solicited advice on what topics to cover in my blogs, someone asked me to cover common mistakes I see authors making in their first pages, so here is…
A while ago when I solicited advice on what topics to cover in my blogs, someone asked me to cover common mistakes I see authors making in their first pages, so here is…
January 26, 2020
The Complete Guide to Query Letters – by Jane Friedman…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
The query letter has one purpose, and one purpose only: to seduce the agent or editor into reading or requesting your work. The query letter is so much of a…
The query letter has one purpose, and one purpose only: to seduce the agent or editor into reading or requesting your work. The query letter is so much of a…
January 19, 2020
How to Query–and More
My last writers’ group meeting included a long discussion about the book market triggered by an article from Vox that one of my colleagues had brought in. The discussion branched off into familiar territory for aspiring authors: how to get … Continue reading →
January 17, 2020
Mea Culpa: Ableism and Handwritten Drafts
Shortly after my post on the joys and advantages of drafting by hand for writers, I began reading an article by Lauren E. Obermark in the November College English, a major journal for teachers of college writing. Obemark examines the … Continue reading →
January 14, 2020
A Small Riff on Handwritten Drafts
This morning I was reading an article for my other blog, College Composition Weekly, where I summarize selected articles from the scholarly journals on teaching writing (if you teach writing, check out my archives). This sentence caught my eye: In … Continue reading →
