Send us your #BlackHistoryBooks recommendations!

You should all know that February is Black History Month. Since the beginning of the month, I’ve been posting book recommendations on our tumblr using the tag #blackhistorybooks. All the books are written by black authors or tell the story of black people...

Watching the Detectives

As the snow just keeps falling on my corner of the world, I’ve been spending a lot of time reading entries in pitch contests, reading queries, reading books. I’ve been finding some great stuff in my inbox. And when I need to take a break,  I’ve been...

How to Find an Agent Part II: Pitching/Approaching an Agent….

Following my post from last month (How to Find an Agent Part I: Where to Find and Research Agents), let’s continue the series with How to Find an Agent Part II: Pitching/Approaching an Agent. In this post I’d like to share some useful tips for pitching...

Advice to NSFW Novelists

…OR IF YOUR READERS TRY WHAT YOU WROTE ABOUT AND GET HURT, WHO’S TO BLAME? Guest Post by author J.M. Frey: (This article originally ran at TheMarySue.com) It is 2011, and I am at a literary award after party. There is no statue in my hand, but there is a...

Sales Sales Sales

Hey there, Fuse Fans! It’s been a crazy few months for me, between the holidays and three exciting new deals: Jeffe Kennedy’s THE PAGES OF THE MIND, the first in a new series set in the world of THE MARK OF THE TALA, about a scholar who finds herself...

What Is Your Local Library to You? 

Some of you may know that I’m working on an amazing project about libraries (and that I can’t seem to shut up about it). For me, it’s really a dream and a chance to give back to an institution that I directly credit for my career in publishing. It got me thinking...