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A J Hartley

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style vs. the copy editor: fight!

I wanted to write something brilliant about Actual Rules You Should Follow In Writing like my co-bloggers have done this week, but I can’t think of anything else right now that they haven’t covered, so I’m going to write about Personal Style Vs. The Copy Editor.

I’ve just finished up the copy edits for THE PRETENDER’S [...]

Impressions

If you’re serious about being published, eventually you’ll attend a writing conference and come face-to-face with an agent or editor.  In the same way that following guidelines gives the agent a good impression of you, so does your behavior at a conference.  Conferences can be loads of fun, and should be.  But like your mama [...]

He Just Didn’t Get It.

Because Catie is posting on Friday this week, I was going to post yesterday and then I got buried in rewrites… So here it is on the day it was due. Building on David’s post about submissions, I’d like to add a story and comments. First, the thing David said about going to each agency’s [...]

The Presention of Your Submissions

Following up on Faith’s wonderful post last week, “Bait and Hook,” and kicking off what promises to be an interesting week of themed posts on submissions, I’m going to cut against the grain a bit.

My fellow writers and I often say on this site that there is no right way to do something when it comes [...]

So there I was, in the elevator, and who walked in?

Blurb
/blɜrb/:
1. a brief advertisement or announcement, esp. a laudatory one
2. to advertise or praise

Yesterday, in her excellent post on “bait and hook”, Faith mentioned an agent meeting that served as a turning point for Kim Harrison. In the weeks prior to the meeting, Faith spent a good deal of time helping all of [...]

Bait and Hook

Last week I blogged on the reason why a first book by UnPub usually has to be so much better than the bestseller by Author X, Y or Z. Question four I left hanging so I could devote a bit more time to it. And it was…