Faith Hunter
Last week, my blog subject was The Idea Editor (hereinafter to be referred to as the IE). Admittedly, it was only my opinion, but I believe in the importance of a good, professionally trained, experienced, NYC publishing house, acquisitions editor. Now, because a couple of people have asked, “What makes the Idea Agent?” I’ll turn [...]
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    | Late post today, and I apologize to my fellow MWers, and to Danielle,, for not commenting on posts from last week. I was in San Jose, California for World Fantasy Convention. For those of you unfamiliar with WFC, it is a terrific convention that is geared toward writers — both professional and aspiring — editors, [...] A friend of mine, whom we will call Robin for the purposes of this blog posting, is sending out her first novel to agents. She emailed me recently because she’d gotten a confusing response from an agent, and was looking for advice on how to react. The initial response was incredibly positive; the later response seemed [...] What does a pitch have that might get you noticed? Most (or even all) of the following: Genre info. Bad pitch: “I’m writing a novel and it’s about this girl? Who falls in love? And the guy hates her, you know? And they have lots [...] I am so buried under a fast reweite that I can’t think, today. So, I’m cheating. Please forgive! Last week, I did a seminar on cons and blurbs for RomanceDivas.com. Here it is for you guys, slightly changed, though with a tip-of-the-hat to the romance genre. I have friends who want to be published, and who think that [...] This week’s post comes thanks to reader CJ, who had questions after my last week’s post. I may get a little strident in this post, so I particularly want CJ to know I’m not yelling at him, and in general I’m not yelling at anybody. I’m just yelling because this is *incredibly* important. CJ’s [...] | This is a 2D-barcode containing the address of our Many companies provide barcode readers that you can install on your mobile, and all of the following are compatible with this format: | ||
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