When I did the recent redesign of my author/writing home page, I knew I wanted a page aimed squarely at any wayward agents or editors who happened across my blog. I didn’t want it to replace my “about” page, I wanted it to be a place to espouse my writing philosophies and to talk a [...]
I pulled this up from the archives today because there is some relevance and new info to discuss. When I wrote this post back in October of last year, I blamed the editor. I’ve learned a lot and after painfully working through yet another poorly written book, I’ve decided the blame does not belong to [...]
One of my clients I write for sent me a 2000 word article for editing by proxy the other day. I was glad to do this project because it was a break from the normal writing that I do. I opened the document and activated the track changes feature and got right on it. This [...]
In the first two posts of this series, I hounded folks about the importance of getting all the pieces of the puzzle in place for the all important query letter. This third and final chapter of the query letter story will discuss the outline of the letter itself. Now that you’re ready to go, let’s [...]
Welcome back. In the first post I discussed the importance of writing a good query letter and I hammered home (I hope) the importance of obtaining the 2009 Writer’s Market. Let’s continue on with this query letter best practices post to see the next chapter in the story. Now that you’ve got your intended target [...]
