I’m sitting at my gate waiting for my overnight flight to take off from the Seattle Airport back home to Ohio. This is a perfect time to get this post written!
For the past few days, I’ve proudly served on …
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Pitching Your Project During a Face-to-Face Appointment
How do you feel about pitching your book to a literary agent face-to-face?
- Sounds like a dream come true! Sign me up!
- I’ll sign up for it (but I may back out).
- Do I have to?
- I’m afraid that I
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50 Ways to Afford a Writers Conference When You Can’t Afford Printer Ink
blogger: Cynthia Ruchti
Are there really 50 ways to afford a writers conference when you can’t afford printer ink? Let’s find out.
A writers conference isn’t for everybody. Health or family needs, timing (never works out with the day job), …
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Is your proposal/book ready to submit?
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Recently, I’ve received a few query letters for top-notch ideas, but when I look at the proposal or manuscript, I realize the author shouldn’t have submitted the project yet. The idea and bones of the book are …
Quiz Time— How to Get an Agent
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
You expected Janet Grant today, didn’t you? Janet let me have her blogging day so that we could do a two-day quiz. (And you thought you were through with finals forever.)
We’ve often said that members of …
Elevator Pitches
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
I’m not going to tell you how to craft a compelling elevator pitch today. I’m going to focus instead on the problem with elevator pitches.
What is an elevator pitch? According to Eileen Pincus’ “The Perfect (Elevator) …
Bribery doesn’t help you to get representation
Blogger: Rachel Kent
We received a package today filled with goodies for one of the agents at the agency. This gift was from a writer who emailed a query for a project and mailed the box to go along with …
How important is social media? and other questions.
Blogger: Rachel Kent
I was interviewed before the Northwest Christian Writers’ Renewal Conference by writer Kirk Kraft. This blog was posted on the NCWA site originally, but Kirk was kind enough to give me permission to post it here. I …
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Ranking Conferences by Writing Levels
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Writers conferences are on my mind since I just returned from one in Seattle, and I’m preparing for one next month in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
I’ve noticed that many conferences work best for writers who are at …
Preparing for a Writers Conference
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Registration for a significant fiction writers conference opened this week, and quite a few of my clients have been emailing me asking for advice. I bet many of you have similar conference concerns. So today I have …