Query
Let’s get this party started! Here’s my query roundtable entry for everyone to tear apart…I mean, critique x) Revised 5/23 For Roundtable Edits: Overnight, Jake changed from wallflower to warrior. Or so he would like everyone to believe. If Jake isn’t glued behind his sketchbook, he’s secluded to his room. Yet, when he comes face-to-face with […]
Query Roundtable Introduction
Welcome, traditional route writers! We’ve all struggled through our query letter at least once. For many of us, it’s been a masochistic rehashing of the same 250 words over and over. And over. The worst part isn’t writing it, at least not for me. It’s reading your summary and thinking, “Is this the most succinct […]
How to Market for Success
Dickens didn’t need a twitter handle. Hemingway had no facebook. Bronte blogging? I don’t think so. The great scribes of previous generations had it easy. Yeah, I said it. They spent a lifetime focused on writing. No distractions from technology. Hello? They were too busy making sure their candles didn’t burn up their hardcopy papers! […]
Writer’s Sketch 6: Agent from the Black Lagoon
“Change it all!” the creature, hunched over a towering pile of papers, shouted. Beneath the desk, my knees clicked together as I accepted my red-blotched manuscript. The wheezing breath timed my flipping as I surveyed the damage. Pages-upon-pages with the dreaded red ‘X’, others trailed with a patchwork of corrections. Swallowing the bullet of air […]
Pitch Wars Mentee 2014
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