Aug 24, 2015
You probably know that Fall (the publishing season before the December holidays) is the biggest publishing season of the year. Publishers put their big books out during this time, and Fuse Literary is excited about its projects coming up. We can’t believe that...
Aug 20, 2015
Here’s a guest post from my multi-award winning author Lisa Kessler. I thought it would make a nice author-centric companion to my blog post last week from an agent’s perspective: Writing contests come in all shapes and sizes. Some are for unpublished...
Aug 19, 2015
There are some tried and true principles to follow when you are querying a literary agent. Sometimes it’s easier however, to remember what NOT to do. Remember, a literary agent’s time is extremely limited and we get inundated with queries on a daily basis....
Aug 11, 2015
Every writer knows that winning a writing contest gives you something to put in the “About Me” paragraph of your query letters. But there are more benefits than that to these creative competitions. Writing contests offer the following boosts to your writing career:...
Aug 3, 2015
Some of you may have attended the Writer’s Digest Conference last weekend and in particular Nina Amir’s talk about creating a bestseller plan. But if you didn’t, it was sort of like this. I do a lot of conferences (shout out to the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference...
Jul 29, 2015
The Twitter hashtag #MSWL was started by agent Jessica Sinsheimer (of the Sarah Jane Freymann Agency). Editors and Agents tweet about what kind of manuscripts they would like to see in their inbox. You can see archives of what everyone is looking for here. But I...
Happy Book Birthday to THEY THOUGHT THEY BURIED US by NoNieqa Ramos