Jessica Faust at Bookends has a wonderful blog today on queries. If you’re a writer and don’t follow Bookends, you should and I don’t say that lightly. Jessica gives common sense, friendly and knowledgeable advice about the writing industry and the quest for publication and readers In this blog, she suggests you find a few friends [...]
Posts Tagged ‘agents’
Jessica Faust on Queries
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agents, queries, writing on April 23, 2009 | 7 Comments »
What I’d like to say in a query letter.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agents, queries, writing on April 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I know that it’s all about the writing, the story, but every so often, I’d like to write a different kind of query. So I indulged. A disclaimer: This kind of letter would never work in real life. Agents do need to know what you write, but writing this query was fun. : ) [...]
Agents
Posted in Uncategorized, writing, tagged agents, pitch, queries, waiting, writing on January 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
must be clearing out last year’s mail. There were another two rejections of my Awakening query in my inbox today. One of which I sent at the beginning of October. I suppose in the world of publishing where everything is hurry up and wait, or so it seems, that’s not such a long time. But in [...]
Rambling
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agents, manuscript, rejection letter, SO, writing on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, SO is safe, exhausted but safe, back half way across the world and I swear the house is two degrees colder. No, really. OB finally got the ick night before last but he seems to be doing better. He’s the last so lets hope it doesn’t make another round. And one last item: I’ve begun the [...]
