I recently got to interview Kaleb Nation, author of BRAN HAMBRIC: THE FARFIELD CURSE. Synopsis: Bran Hambric was found locked in a bank vault at six years old, with no memory of his past. For years, he has lived with one of the bankers, wondering why he was left behind — until one...
But one thing keeps pushing your submission deeper into the rejection slush pile.Your book proposalisn’t catchy enough. And you thought a fantastic book idea could do the magic. However, a great book idea is just the beginning, the foundation. Congratulations. But by the time you’refinished...
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2) Read the submission guidelines. This is important for ANYTHING you submit to any market. All editors are swamped with stories and short on time. We want to find great stories, obviously, but we also want to get through our slush piles. When I get a story that’s written in a tiny...
Ideally, the best things you can bring to writing conferences are the obvious: an intriguing pitch, a synopsis of your book, and the first chapter (or short sample) of your writing. If you haven’t published a book yet, you should prepare for everything you need to get published. Be ...
Since then, there have been a number of other series that have influenced my storytelling and writing style. The Closer—This show did an amazing job with character idiosyncrasies as a method for building empathy.Here’s the series synopsis: The Closer is a police procedural series, starring Ky...
Question: This is my first time trying to write, I constantly imagine fictional scenarios, so I decided to write a novel with them, but in my idea, we … Synopsis Format Question: Hello! Thank you for answering my question about how many characters to add in a synopsis! I should have...
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If you write this sort of thing as your submission synopsis, you will get a swift rejection. You don’t sell to publishers or agents that way.What I mean by jacket blurb is something that reads like:Patrick Hanrahan is a down-on-his-luck journalist, dreaming of being a white knight on...
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