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4 Other Ways to Get a Literary Agent

In today’s publishing industry the traditional methods of getting a literary agent is as follow: (1) aspiring writer submits manuscript to literary agent (2) agent either accepts manuscript or rejects it. It’s no real secret, that’s how it usually goes, and the publishing industry today is cutthroat for new authors. This is added to the [...]

15 Ways Science Fiction Publishers Can Increase Sales, Save Money, and Promote Publicity

In these troubled times publishers can use every advantage to make them one step ahead of their competition. However, with a stressful ever-increasing workload sometimes it’s easy to become jaded into what your readers think about your imprint when you work from the inside of the publishing industry. Fortunately, I’m in the unique position of [...]

Writing and Hope

Ever since I was sixteen I always sensed I was destined for great things. That moment came for me when I finished The Great Gatsby. I don’t know why, I’ve always had a great affinity for that novel, but it’s around that age that I first began writing and really haven’t stopped since that time. [...]

Five Ways Publishers Can Increase Sales, Save Money, and Promote Publicity II

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Here is part two of my four part series entitled “Five Ways Publishers Can Increase Sales, Save Money, and Promote Publicity”. For those that haven’t read part one (Click Here) otherwise check out the list below.

1) Highlight Editors Blogs

If there’s something I love more than reading the blogs of my favorite science fiction [...]

Anticipation Progress Report 4 Released

This week the latest progress report for Anticipation (the 67th Worldcon Science Fiction Convention) was released. This makes it the final report of the convention up until the first week of August, so if you’re planning to attend the event it would be a good idea to view its contents at www.anticipationsf.ca or downloading it [...]

Five Misconceptions About Literary Agents

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While I haven’t been published or found full-time representation for my novel Second Death (click here) I know enough about the publishing world and of manuscript submissions to know that there are a lot of preconceived notions and misconceptions when it comes [...]

New Years Resolution #94 Completed: Receive 5 Rejection Letters from Literary Agents

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While most people tend to cast away their failures in a meager effort to get rid of them, I welcome rejection. So much so that many of my New Years resolutions are solely based on failing. For the past five months I’ve been shopping [...]

My Novel Gets Rejected From Writers House, and Why I Couldn’t Care Less

Well six weeks after I was requested sample chapters for my novel, Second Death, I received an email yesterday from Writers House that they will not be accepting me for representation. Am I disappointed? A little, but not near as much as I thought I would be given the circumstances. I finished completing the manuscript [...]

Reader Response: How to Get a Literary Agent

A few weeks ago I received a question from a lovely woman in Kentucky who was searching for a literary agent for her novel. Here are the contents of that letter:

Thank you so much for this article. I am going to follow the advice and will cross my fingers! Much appreciated.
One question. I started blogging [...]

How to get a novel published

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I know I’ve been a little lax with my post entries lately but I’ve been pretty busy with school finishing up and am still scrambling to find an internship for the last leg of my program in book and magazine publishing. Nonetheless, I [...]