How long should your book be? Does it even matter? Isn’t the art as long as the art needs to be for you to tell …
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You’ve done the hard work with your query letter, and now comes the excruciating wait, the self-doubt, the endless questions around query letter follow-up etiquette. …
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Continuing our writing prompt series (check out our wildly popular 101 character writing prompts), we’re moving on to scene writing prompts. Scene writing is writing. …
Author Shannon Bowring is special. Not only is she a contributing editor to Aspiring Author, she has also been a fierce champion and brilliant friend, …
You may have heard about the great query letter vs. book proposal debate. Which one should you choose to pitch your manuscript or project to …
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Comp titles in query letters are essentially the titles of published books that are similar or comparable to your manuscript. They are designed to help …
There’s no such thing as an aspiring writer. If you write, you are a writer. But there is such a thing as an aspiring author: …
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There’s truly nothing better than reading a book that keeps you on your toes until the very last page. Books with unreliable narrators are usually first-person …
This probably sounds like a trick question: isn’t the right publisher for your book the publisher who wants to publish your book? The one (or …
Plotting vs. pantsing: the great debate. Every writer likes to think they’re one or the other, or perhaps a bit of both (a “plantser”). There’s …
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