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Tweet I read yet another blog post recently about writers not following submission guidelines. This one was by a publisher, but I’ve also read them from agents and magazine editors. Well, yes, writers should follow the submission guidelines. The fact that every agent and editor in the whole world has ever-so-slightly different requirements notwithstanding, it [...] Tweet The other day, someone in my online writers group wondered if a particular publisher was still in business. They had submitted a manuscript to them four months ago and had heard nothing. So they’d checked the website and found it hadn’t been updated since some time in 2008. Of course, old hands at the [...] Tweet I knew it would be good when I saw their promo site, but How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs if You Ever Want to Get Published by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark, exceeded my every expectation. I thought it would be funny and it was. I laughed [...] Tweet Be still my beating heart! I just got a letter today from the JABberwocky Agency in New York in reply to my query letter. It asked to see some pages! Maybe I’m getting the hang of this query-letter thing after all. JABberwocky is a great agency, and the agent I approached, Eddie Schneider, looks [...] Tweet I recently finished writing (yet another) novel and I’m looking for an agent to represent it. To get an agent (it seems) you have to ‘query’ them. That is, you have to write them a letter asking them if they would be interested in reading your manuscript. Easy enough, you’d think, but writing a [...] |
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