This is the story about what happened after that Writers Conference in 1996 at which I became friends with the brilliant novelists Lucia Orth and Sasha Troyan. Actually, a lot of things happened, one of them being that I went home and completely rewrote my current novel yet once again…. Read more“6 Steps to Tangling with the Publishing Windmill”
Tag: Query Letters
Justifying author bios
Have you ever wondered why agents want to see an author bio paragraph in a query letter that is—as least ostensibly—supposed to be entirely about selling them on one particular book? They don’t want to hear about your other unpublished novels or ideas, but they do want to know whether… Read more“Justifying author bios”
Guest post on Ask Wendy
Wendy-Burt-Thomas is the author of the wildly-popular Writer’s Digest Guide to Query Letters. She’s smart, entertaining, and great fun to hang out with. And in the course of talking about our books, we discovered we are twin souls: we both love to make up bad examples. So please join us… Read more“Guest post on Ask Wendy”