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Writers' Etiquette: Lesson One 26 Aug 2013 | 09:23 pm
Dear Miss Rosie: As an author of still unpublished literary works, I am appalled by the number of inferior books that are published and consumed by mass audiences. I would love to publish a long, angr...
Publishing Pulse for August 23, 2013 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
New At QueryTracker: Congratulations to a new QueryTracker success story, Mike Grosso! Go read about how he found an agent for his contemporary midgrade novel. This week we've updated six agent prof...
Giveaway ABC’s 21 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-CA X-NONE X-NONE When done well, giveaways are a great tool for building your platform. They can help draw attention to your website, your blog, your Facebook pag...
Protecting Yourself From Plagiarism 19 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Parody image of movie piracy commercial. For a college professor like me, plagiarism is always a concern. But problems aren’t limited to the classroom. Every writer needs to be wary—both so you don’t...
Chaptering: Those Magical Last Lines 14 Aug 2013 | 06:20 pm
As a novelist, it has never occurred to me to write a book that wasn’t broken into chapters. I seem to read more articles on writing than actually writing, it seems. For instance, I’ve read many arti...
How Novelrank Works, And Why We Care 12 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
I am a nerd. I am the kind of nerd who enjoys doing her own taxes, and who spent twelve years trading geeky derivatives on Wall Street. So buckle your seatbelts, kiddies, and nerd out with me for a mi...
Publishing Pulse for Friday, August 7th, 2013 9 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Querytracker Success Stories:Please join me in congratulating three newly agented Querytrackers this week! Click on their names to read their interviews. They are: Thomas Torre, Rachel Lynn Solomon an...
How to Keep Your Website or Blog From Exploding 7 Aug 2013 | 07:58 pm
Normal 0 false false false false EN-CA X-NONE X-NONE Normal 0 false false false EN-CA X-NONE X-NONE ©Stina Lindenblatt One of the first pieces of advice I received when I started wri...
The Organized Writer: Using a Chapter Framework to Manage Plots and Subplots 5 Aug 2013 | 05:40 pm
I should start by saying, first, I am not an organized writer. And that's part of the reason I'm writing this post. Until I started writing mysteries, I was a proud pantser who sorta/kinda organized p...
Publishing Pulse for Friday, August 2, 2013 2 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
This Week at Query Tracker… The profiles of several agents were updated this week--including a few new listings. Please make sure you double-check every agent's website or Publisher's Marketplace pag...
