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Making the Perfect Nonfiction Pitch

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Let’s backtrack for a day to the all-important topic of  pitches and query letters. I just received an expert blog post from agent Katharine Sands, editor of Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent’s Eye, a collection of pitching wisdom from leading literary agents, and this one makes it well worth revisiting these topics one more time…
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Editing IS Marketing: Boning Up on First Impressions

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Since we are on the topic of editing (see yesterday’s post), I thought we should follow that line of thinking into another area: marketing. This gives us another way to look at what we do when we edit our work or have professional editors help us polish our writing. To do this, I’ve asked Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi…
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Ten Top Editing Errors to Avoid

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Yesterday we discussed query letters and how to make them immaculate. However, all the writing nonfiction writers turn in to editors, agents or publishers must be immaculate. Therefore, they must learn to be great editors of their own work. That is not to say that all writers don’t need to have their work edited by professional editors—almost all do. However,…
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Five Things to Avoid for a Pristine Query Letter

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If you want to sell your nonfiction writing, at some point you’ll have to write a query letter. This holds true whether you are writing a book, an article or an essay. If you remain uncertain about what writing a query letter entails, return to the origins of the word itself. The word “query” means “a question” or “an inquiry.”…
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Make Every Word Count When Pitching to Agents or Acquisition Editors

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A writer wanting to obtain a literary agent most often has to send an agent a pitch or query letter before ever entering into a conversation about representation. Additionally, if aspiring authors decide to approach publishing houses without literary representation, they must take the same route: compose and send a pitch or query letter. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you might…
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