Finding A Literary Agent: A Numbers Game When it comes to writing, when it comes to life, there are some things that can wait for inspiration, and there are those things that we just have to do. Finding an agent to represent your project falls into the latter camp, and that’s because...
Mark:There are so many things an author can do incorrectly in approaching a literary agent. One of the biggest mistakes I see is querying a literary agent with an incomplete fiction manuscript. Sale only becomes possible with a finished manuscript. First, really nail that query letter and hook...
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In: 2024, 5 Stars, Adult Books, Literary Fiction Tagged: Author Interview, Books Forward PR, Coming of Age Including An Interview With the Author WHAT IT’S ABOUT After his father dies suddenly and his family’s fortune takes a nosedive, Jonas Shore starts selling weed and pills to cool ...
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But for my short fiction, there was a new voice coming. Partly it was due to my getting an MFA and studying literary fiction. And partly it was an overdose on horror, graphic films, violence in fiction, and the state of the world. I remember when my twins were born. It didn’t ...
[Nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for YA Fiction] Boy in Box is a story about growing up and finding identity amid the chaos and confusion of puberty and the anxiety of entering into a stressful adult world while questioning whether everything happens ...
Impact of introductions, prologues, prefaces and forewords ‘I was told that novels shouldn’t have prologues,’ a writer said to me recently. We had been discussing her novel, and I was suggesting that she could add a prologue to it to strengthen as aspect of the story. She said that ...
When I completely eliminate the passive voice, gerunds, and adverbs, my prose seems stilted. Editors: feel free to disagree. But I recently readthis articleabout friendships by a literary agent I follow. I loved it so much, I read it twice. Then I realized the author broke some rules wit...
In Horton's All or Nothing Problem, the agent has three options: a permissible act that saves no one, a wrongful act that saves only one child, or a supere... Xueshi Wang - Philosophia 被引量: 0发表: 2024年 PERIL in the UNDER-STORY Discusses the surprising links among acorns, deer...