This post should almost be labeled a redux because I’ve posted so much of the conversation before. I am once again dealing with that balancing act of craft vs voice. I think more aspiring writers would do well to actually listen, absorb, and apply the feedback they receive from agents when they query. Too often…
I don’t normally do a year in review because my pursuit of publication has been an ongoing effort for over four years now and that story has only changed somewhat. Write a novel -> query, write a novel -> query, start new year, repeat. That was 2009 through 2011. Then came 2012, the year of…
It’s been a while since I’ve posted. I have a few drafts that I’ll probably never publish (that happens from time to time), but I have a really good reason why. I’ve been writing like Robert E. Howard. Not specifically in his style, but when he wrote Conan, he said that the barbarian himself stood…
You may not be, for whatever foolish reasons you have, following agent Kristin Nelson’s blog. That should change, for she has published the one lesson to rule them all. Read this.
I was speaking with an agent a few weeks back, and we got on the subject of self-publishing. As has been recorded here, my opinion on self-publishing has evolved as self-publishing itself has evolved. I won’t say it’s changed, because that loses the nuance of my progress. The majority of self-published work I read is…
Being a digital generation, it’s easy to get trapped in the notion that who people are online is who they are in real life. And not to say that they’re liars or phonies, but when we’re on Twitter or Blogger or Facebook, we only see a fraction of that person. I never “market” myself, meaning…