Now that you know where to find an agent, and you know the essentials of writing a book proposal – which you will submit to land a contract with an agent, it’s time to learn how not to blow your big chance to gain literary representation. Here today to tell us all about literary agents’ pet peeves, so we can…
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11 Ways to Find a Literary Agent
Every wanna-be author who has dreams of being picked up and published by a traditional publishing house wants to know how to secure representation by a literary agent. Why? Because the large publishing houses won’t look at manuscripts or proposals from “unagented” writers. Some mid-sized, and most small, university, niche, and regional publishers will look at, and often welcome, unagented…
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Memoir Writing: Telling Your Truth
I’ve always wanted to write a memoir. One agent even recommended that I write one of my prescriptive nonfiction books as a memoir. I never did. I saw her a few months ago. It had been about two years since she wrote that response to my book proposal. She told me now she would probably advise me to stick with…
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How to Make Your Manuscript Compelling
Writers can never get too much advice from editors about how to improve their writing. And even editors can learn from other editors. That’s why I asked yet another editor to join me in writing a blog for Write Nonfiction in November. Teresa Leyung Ryan and I move in similar circles, and many of my friends and associates rave about…
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Are You a Traditional Publishing Holdout or a Self-Publishing Maven?
Yesterday’s post brought up an important issue with which most nonfiction (and some fiction) authors today need to grapple: Are you a traditional publishing holdout or a self-publishing maven? Bothroutes to becoming an author have their merits, and both have their pros and cons. However, these days, the benefits of one over the other are becoming a bit more blurred….
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Overcoming the Overwhelm of Becoming a First-Time Author
I often find myself struggling with simply getting started on a book project of my own. I can dig into the editing of someone else’s manuscript with no problem; after all, they’ve already overcome their own overwhelm and written the whole book. Plus, I’m still struggling with the idea of self-publishing my work. I’m a traditional publishing hold out, which explains why…
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How to Make Your Prose Marketable
Today’s agenda: Learning ways to make our writing more marketable, a necessary skill for writers to learn if they are to successfully sell their writing. After all, if we want to be published writers, or authors, we have to be able to sell our writing. That means what we write must be marketable. Makes sense, no? Sounds simple, but it…
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