Publishing … and Other Forms of Insanity: 4 Romance Publishers Looking for Writers – No Agent Needed
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Marketing 101: How NOT to Promote Your Novel
Marketing 101: How NOT to Promote Your Novel
So, you’ve completed your first novel. Now what? Publish it, duh. Did you really spend three years and countless hours creating this thing just to keep it to yourself. No. You want to share it and …
A GENERAL GUIDE TO NETWORKING: PUBLISHING EDITION
A GENERAL GUIDE TO NETWORKING: PUBLISHING EDITION
A lot of my advice about entering publishing mentions the word “networking”. For those of you with little to no experience networking, it is NOT a photo meme in which you dress in a trench coat and yell:
Rather, networking is a vital skill one must develop when entering,…
OMG. Flawless.
That part about interaction on Twitter is so important. The days I close my browser and go sit outside to contemplate the sun swallowing the universe = because people on Twitter want to win influence by correcting my grammar or making humorless jokes about advice given when I’m genuinely trying to help people.
White Crown Press, Small Press Fantasy Publisher
White Crown Press, Small Press Fantasy Publisher
White Crown Press is a brand new, independent publisher that specialises in fantasy literature. Through this blog we hope to discover talented young or unnoticed writers and get them the exposure they deserve. As well as publishing writers, we hope to use this blog to…
Crossed Genres magazine Raises Rates to Pro-Rates for Sci-Fi Stories
Crossed Genres Publications, an independent publisher of spec fiction, is now paying fiction writers 6 cents/word, considered pro-rates for this genre.
Crossed Genres (est. 2008), the magazine, is still soliciting short fiction stories for the October 2014 issue. The theme is “Robots, Androids & Cyborgs”—fiction tales about these classic themes using dominant elements of sci-fi/fantasy to tell the story.
UrbanFantasist.com Seeks Sci-Fi Writers for New Webzine – Pays 6 cents/word
UrbanFantasist.com is debuting a new webzine called Grievous Angel showcasing SFF&H flash fiction and poetry by both emerging and talented writers. This includes stories of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, along with steampunk, urban fantasy, mythos, and related sub-genres.
Charles Christian, an award-winning technology journalist who also writes SFF&H (and is a book author), welcomes original poetry (up to 5 poems) and flash fiction (up to 750 words).
Tor.com Accepting Sci-Fi/Fantasy Manuscripts for New Imprint
Tor.com Accepting Sci-Fi/Fantasy Manuscripts for New Imprint
Popular sci-fi site Tor.com (est. 2008) is launching a new book imprint called Tor.com: The Imprint and has posted new submission guidelines to help unagented authors propose their book manuscripts to the editors.
Now until August 31, 2014, the…
MSWL Day Tomorrow on Twitter
Tomorrow (February 26th) many fabulous agents and editors will be taking to Twitter #MSWL to put out their current manuscript wish lists. So, check it out. If you can’t be on tomorrow or want more information on this event check out Agent and Editor Wish List on Tumblr. They’ve got the rules and they’ll be compiling the tweets.
Good luck authors and agents, hopefully someone will be seeking your manuscript!
Fingers crossed,
Michi
Hook Me: Common Problems
Yesterday, I held a little game called Hook Me where I asked followers to submit summaries in the form of a query letter to my ask box. The goal was to hook me, just like you would a lit agent.
So why didn’t your submission hook me? It wasn’t your plot (or maybe it was if it was something I’d…
Janet Reid, Literary Agent: Rant: Pitch sessions are the spawn of Satan
Janet Reid, Literary Agent: Rant: Pitch sessions are the spawn of Satan
I just had occasion to link this post again to a conference organizer, so I’m putting it here to boost the signal!
Pitch sessions are the spawn of Satan.
They’re an evil born of writing conference and writers’ understandable eagerness to get in front of as many agents as possible. If querying is a numbers game (it can seem that way) then meeting with as many agents as possible at a writing conference seems like a good idea…