Happy Friday! I hope you're getting the beautiful sunshine we have here in Texas. This weekend I'll be conducting a short session on Pitching Your Manuscript to Agents and Editors...several other authors will also be presenting and I hope you'll join us. Here's a link to the information: http://houstonwritersguild.org/
Welcome Madelyn Hill: Hello Madelyn! Why do you write? I've always been an avid reader and from a young age would write short stories. Stories seem to pop into my head and I like to flesh out plots, characters and research. Even when I'm swamped with other things, my mind tends to wander to [...]
Come to the HWG and GCFW pitch workshop to discover the “new” way to pitch agents. Download the workshop SCHEDULE. Download workshop handouts for ENOS RUSSELL (more handouts to come). Of course, you’ll learn the traditional way also, wowing the agent. Learn The Art of Pitching, and write your pitch during this session with help of award [...]
Come to the HWG and GCFW pitch workshop to discover the “new” way to pitch agents. Download the workshop SCHEDULE. Download workshop handouts for ENOS RUSSELL (more handouts to come). Of course, you’ll learn the traditional way also, wowing the agent. Learn The Art of Pitching, and write your pitch during this session with help of award [...]
This post was shared with me recently and it has such fantastic advice that I'm sharing it with everyone here. How to handle reviews has always been a subject of concern for authors. After reading, I realized that I need to change my ways. I've always thanked reviewers for any and all reviews because I [...]
Recently Dawn Dowdle from Blue Ridge Literary Agency sent out this advice to all her author prospects. These are a few things she runs into on a regular basis that detract from the overall quality of a submission. This is excerpted with her permission. I thought it worthy of sharing as the advice is something [...]
Hump Day! I love that commercial. Here's a little motivation for you to get through the rest of the week. Watch this video... What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?--Maria Novak
We all reach a day, a month, a year, or a decade where our goals seem impossible to achieve. We have worked for months, even years toward a measure of success that we set for ourselves. And it remains elusive, avoiding us like poison. We thought we had it once but no, it escaped back [...]
The Promised One by C.D. Hersh My rating: 5 of 5 stars Holy Cow. This one surprised me. I was immersed from the beginning by curiosity about the ring. Then things became more and more complicated. Love the way Rhys and Lexi work off each other. And the complexities of the relationship compounded by her [...]
Want to immerse your readers deeper into your book? Need to keep their attention to the very last word? Here are five steps you should always take before submitting a manuscript to a publisher--or if you self-pub, do it before you even think about publishing. Even if you have someone editing your work, use these [...]
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