Tag: fiction
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And the first rule of writing on the computer IS:
If you have never seen this before, you may find some context helpful:
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Resources for Agent-Finding: More on Query Tracker
I’ve already mentioned Query Tracker as one of the searchable databases available to authors seeking agents. Query Tracker is great: anyone can search for agents via genre(s) and various filter tools and find them at the click of a button. Well, after signing up with Query Tracker (free) and exploring the site a bit last…
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What are your thoughts on book trailers?
Films have previews. Why shouldn’t books? Today The Read Room is offering an open forum on what I’m (perhaps belatedly) beginning to notice as a growing trend in the literary world: trailers. I’ll say up front that I know very little about book trailers at present– only that they come in many varieties, that I’ve…
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Looking for a Literary Agent: 3 Starter Resources
So you’ve written a book. (If you haven’t yet, go back a few spaces: agents rarely consider queries for unfinished, debut novels!) What next? You begin the search for an agent, of course! First, before you start the search, I highly recommend reading this Writer Beware: Agent Advisories and Tips from SFWA. It’s a comprehensive…
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Variation On “You’re Trapped on an Island…”
Bad news: they just announced a meteor the size of Donald Trump’s ego is hurtling towards a fire-y (get it? “You’re Fired”?) orange collision with earth. Good news: you’ve got a seat on a shuttle out. Let’s blow this popsicle stand! Bad news: space is limited. You don’t even get a full suitcase. You probably…
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Benefit From My Geekage, or: How Successful Queries Open, in Stats
Recently I asked for your take on opening a novel query letter. Today I want to talk more in-depth about the two tried-and-true approaches I mentioned before as well as present a few observations from my research into query letters. You know–in numbers. A couple weeks back I discovered the Writer’s Digest Successful Queries series.…
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Julie Takes The Internet By Storm
A STAGGERING 12 LIKES ON FACEBOOK AND A WEBSITE BESIDES JULIE ISRAEL, self It doesn’t take much to excite an unpublished author. “Twelve likes!” Julie Israel, one such aspiring novelist exclaims. “That’s almost a baker’s dozen!” Israel, the author of various WIP, has been working on her author platform since early this year. Or last…
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Writing A Novel Query Letter
I’ve been reading up on the query process, and am compiling a list of tips I find most helpful, common questions and answers, and conjectures I’ve drawn in my own research on the making of an effective query. Treat your query letter as if life (that of your book, anyway) depended on it. The query letter…
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