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Do you have an ‘elevator pitch’? Write one and enter this comp!
The June Agent Contest has been announced this morning on Query Tracker (QT):
Here are the contest details:
* Entries will be accepted by entry form on the main QueryTracker.net site.
* You may submit your entries during the 24-hour window beginning at midnight tonight MST and ending at 11:59 Tuesday night.
* Acceptable genres are adult fiction, YA fiction, [...]
Query letters Part 1- the work of the devil?
Some might say it’s cruel and unusual and I’m not in the mood to disagree. I have been battling – and I mean battling - with my query letter for some weeks now. I wrote the first one, sent it off to five agents and waited for the offers to roll in. I had done [...]
Finding a Literary Agent
I am on a mission
Having completed my novel I am now at the painfully delicious stage of deciding what to do with it. There are various options open to me but I am concentrating on finding an agent for the moment.
What does an agent do?
There are many, many agents out there. But why would you [...]
What does “three sentences” mean? The Knight Agency comp update.
Finding an agent – how hard can it be?
In truly annoying form, I am going to answer that with another question – how long is a piece of string? For the last year I have been cogitating the question of what to do when I finished my book. My ideal solution would be to find [...]
Writing news and a great new competition
Book in Progress
After the thrill of completing the first draft (I’ve been blogging about that on the last geek bus home), the editing has gone really well. I’m very pleased with the results. Editing a book that is in the region of 140,000 words is no small task but I can honestly say I have [...]