Publishers can broadly be divided into two categories: traditional publishers (i.e. the Big Five publishing houses in New York) and indie publishers. Indie publishing is […]
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An MFA, or Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, is the terminal degree in writing that can be taken under Fiction, Creative Nonfiction (CNF),
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A query letter hook is the way that you capture a literary agent’s attention right at the start of your query letter. It’s the most
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This is a special one. Not only is author H.C. Helfand a great case study in mixing up genre, audience, and exploring multiple paths to
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Rather than listing out current calls for submissions—of which there are thousands, yes thousands!—I figured it would be really useful to provide a list of
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When querying literary agents, you need a killer query letter, manuscript or book proposal, and a strong stomach. But how many literary agents should you
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You’ve done it: you’ve put in all the hard work it requires to get a literary agent to want to sign you. But what most
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Photo credit: Sharona Jacobs For the next interview in our author interview series, I’m honored to interview the inimitable screenwriter and author Elizabeth Searle. From
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