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I get this question all the time at conferences. So let's break this down.... It does happen sometimes that a querying author will let me know that their material is currently under review at a publishing house (usually because they had an invitation from attending a...

I recently stumbled upon a blog post about a writer’s experience at a particular conference, one I’ve attended, and it made me think about how the same conference can feel very different to two writers. There are so many different conferences, and your personality and...

Hi there Fuse fans! I've been catching up on my query inbox lately, and I thought I'd talk about something I've been encountering a lot, which is 'personalization' in a query that actually detracts from the query itself. It's conventional wisdom in any number of...

Thank you all for participating in our annual charity auction! Mental health is a cause that means a lot to us, our clients, and many of our readers and followers, and we consider it a privilege to be able to help. Since we launched Fuse, we've held a charity...

Today J.M. Frey was nominated for an Aurora Award and we couldn’t be prouder. The Aurora Awards are Canada’s national Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards and have been presented since 1970. Frey’s comic “Bloodsuckers” (Toronto Comics vol. 2) was nominated for best...

Foreign rights agent Rachel Richardson talks about Bologna Book Fair.

When you read that an agent is looking for manuscripts that sound similar to yours, it's perfectly normal to get super excited and shoot off an email query with your samples pages. But instead of the "yes, please send me the full manuscript" response you expected, you...