Oct 20, 2014
We’ve had a great response to Michelle Richter’s Short Fuse on Query Letters. Tomorrow, October 21, we’ll be releasing another one! This will be The Short Fuse Guide to Working with Book Bloggers by our own Jen Karsbaek. With newspapers and magazines...
Oct 15, 2014
I’m so thrilled to be writing this blog today as part of Fuse Literary, our explosive, exciting new name. We are all focused on igniting author careers, and we also love puns and wordplay, because we are book-loving nerds. We’re so excited to be Fuse...
Oct 8, 2014
I was recently interviewed by an author I’d met several times at the Central Coast Writers Conference held in San Luis Obispo, California. He was struggling with advice I gave in one of my workshops and needed clarification. Looking out over a sea of faces in a...
Oct 8, 2014
Often, in submissions that are otherwise promising, there’s a very specific and almost insurmountable flaw: they take forever to get moving. I once told a writer that I thought they were a brilliant prose stylist with a great eye for character, but that I had...
Oct 1, 2014
You may have heard the rumors, but if agents are considering offering you representation, they often Google you, paying particular attention to your social media presence. So what are agents looking for? Obviously I can’t speak for all agents, but what I want to...
Sep 30, 2014
We applaud every time a group of publishing professionals steps outside their comfort zone and tries something new. In this case, a public library system will publish their first ebook and they’re casting a wide net for submissions! The as-yet-untitled ebook...
Happy Book Birthday to THEY THOUGHT THEY BURIED US by NoNieqa Ramos