Queries are business letters. They are your introduction to a stranger, your resume, and first impression. Don’t screw it up. Writer...

                         Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech. So your manuscript is completed, critiqued, and polished. Now you want a venue to d...

I love writing for kids!  There is something very rewarding about having a child give you a compliment on your story, or the way their eyes ...

You’ve finished your novel. You’ve written a query. Now it’s time to send that query out into the wide world. All you’ve got to do is find a...

Sorry for the delay, but here is the link to the hangout. I'll be in the chat room from now until 10:30 PM CST/8:30 PM PST https://plu...

So you’ve signed the contract. Now what? Here is a checklist of some things you’ll need to do or consider. Some might apply. Others might no...

The Man Who Needs No Hyperlink himself, Ninja Captain Alex J. Cavanaugh. *I feel a squee coming on* I’m here today to share some tips...

Until Angela Kelly , editor at Musa Publishing , became a part of my writerly family, I had no concept of the word dedicated. When an e...

TheBent Agency. Reading their impressive “About” section is enough to put these folks on top of a short list of agencies. Their goal? Buil...

Here's a reminder of what he's looking for in a manuscript at this time. I’m looking for adult fiction be it paranormal, sci-fi,...

The earthquake wasn’t his fault. Not this time. I wrote those words three years ago as the beginning paragraph to Wilder Mage. Then I del...

You need to research publishers the same way you research agents. Why? For the same reasons. To make sure they are a reputable publisher ...

Hey, everyone! I’m here to talk to you about the dreaded synopsis. To this very day, the synopsis gives me a headache, but I would say it’s ...

Picking which agents to query when you are all finished polishing that shiny new novel is A LOT more work than you might think. It's be...

As some of you may know, I signed a contract with WiDo in June to publish my Historical Romance. Here's the query that got me the deal: ...

    Matthew MacNish of the Quintessentially Questionable Query Experiment (QQQE) wrote this excellent guest post for us last year f...