What To Do While Waiting For Queries
If you’re one of the lucky (read: twitchy, anxiously refreshing email, sleepless) writers that has sent queries out, you’re likely stuck in a waiting game. Nervously watching the clock, expecting to hear back from your prospective agents any second. If you want to drive yourself mad, I suggest you continue stalking them on twitter. Oh [...]
Trick Or Treat?
Writing is a scary business. If you’re not terrified of the idea of writing a story, having others read it and then trying to get it published, you must be a zombie. When you really think about it, the act of writing is like year-round Halloween. It’s also like the Olympics, but that’s another post [...]
The Writing Olympics
The Summer Olympics are hours away from starting in London, and it got me thinking. Writing has its own Olympic events. That’s right, there’s different skills that a writer endures that are at such a high level of difficulty, that toying with them is not for the faint of heart. Yet, while the Olympics choose [...]
Query Contests – Are You Armed And Ready?
In a month of crazy contests every week or so, I thought this was very timely! Please enjoy this wonderful guest post by Kat Ellis on query contest! You’ve got your manuscript polished to a gleam, and maybe you’ve sent your query out to some agents. Maybe you’ve even been through a few online crit rounds to [...]
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