Why Beta Reader Feedback Can Be Invaluable
Is your creative vision on your pages? Here's how you can find out.
No Time to Write Your Book? Try 10 Minutes a Day
With so many demands on our time and energy, how can we successfully engage with our creative work so that we don't squander our “one wild and precious life”?
How to Submit to a Literary Agent
Do you know what literary agents are looking for? Or what will make them want to read your manuscript? Or what might turn them off?
Is This the Year You Finally Write Your Novel? 3 Must-Read Resources
Is your goal for 2016 to start, finish, or revise your novel? Here are three must-read recommendations for novelists.
Stalking the Elusive Literary Agent
I recently met a writer who had begun submitting her first novel to literary agents and had a lot of questions: "Why did an agent tell me that I should work with an independent editor and then resubmit it? Why didn't he offer to help me himself?” “Why do agents mail out form rejections instead...
Your 10-Second Pitch to Agents and Editors
You're at a writers' conference where you're lucky enough to meet a literary agent. When you tell her you've written a book, she asks, “What's it about?” Do you start rambling aimlessly—and lose her interest? Or do you capture her imagination in seconds with one short sentence that makes her say, “Tell me more!”? A...