Sometimes you have one of those weeks where a certain type of person shows up repeatedly. One of those weeks…
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This is a quote from Brene Brown. One that couldn’t be more true. Courage doesn’t mean without fear. It’s not…
I’ve addressed this a few times on the blog and we’ve even discussed it in a YouTube video, but it…
December is a particularly hard time in Query Land. This is when we get the most incomplete queries from authors…
One of the biggest mistakes I see in submissions is the book starts in the wrong place. Either you’ve filled…
As more agents close to queries this time of year, more querying authors are blindly submitting to anyone, and wasting…
The question about whether or not to query in December is the probably most-asked in all of publishing. Quick answer–no.…
Making the choice to request a submission is very similar to readers making a choice to buy a book. The…
When I look at a query letter the first thing I look at is the idea. I want something that…
As our social media grows so do the number of comments and DMs asking to query, pre-querying, or just plain…