Market News: Jan 13, 2008

Welcome everyone. I’m looking at several different publishers this week, as well as sharing other information.   Parker Publishing (http://www.parker-publishing.com) is actively seeking submissions of African-American romance and erotic romance. Parker publishes mainstream fiction under its NOLA imprint. Parker’s Isis imprint features paranormal and speculative fiction. Romance is published under the Noire Allure imprint.  Noire Passion [...]

Harlequin Presents Contest

http://www.iheartpresents.com/?p=146
Deadline: Feb 14th

Following the Guidelines: Is it Voluntary Torture or Common Courtesy?

By Deanna Lee
Editor in Chief
Cobblestone Press, LLC
What happens to a submission when it hits in my inbox? I’m sure that’s a question more than one author has so I’ll break that process down.

I review the cover letter
Verify the correct file format
File the submission for review based on the genre and purpose of the submission (i.e. [...]

Writers Block Tip

by Alice Anderson
When you sit down to write, visualize your ultimate goal in your head.
If your goal is to make enough money to support yourself, imagine that you’re at home, at your computer, answering only to your editor and agent.
Maybe you want to be able to hire a made… so in your mind she [...]

30 Minute Challenge

Ready? Set. Write!
When your 30 minutes are up, come back and let us know how many words you wrote.

A New Year

A NEW YEAR!Tis the time of year for resolutions and goal setting, but have you noticed, first of the year, the same ones keep showing up? “Get the call” is popular, but that’s not a goal; it’s an objective. Goals should be something you have control over, not an editor sitting at a desk in [...]

HQN

Keyren Gerlach is a new Editorial Assistant for Harlequin Historicals and HQN books

Organizational Challenge

I have a challenge for everyone. It’s rather easy. A few times a year my desktop (on my computer) gets so cluttered with icons that it starts to drive me crazy. Since I always use the start button, there’s really no need for me to have a billion icons on the desktop. So [...]

Class: Plotting Via Motivation

Online class: February 1-29, 2008
“Plotting Via Motivation”
by Laurie Schnebly Campbell
Registration $30 at www.WriterUniv.com/
Motivation is what drives your story. Any of us could
write a book in which character set out for a three
hour tour and get shipwrecked on an uncharted desert
isle. We’ve seen what seven such characters would
do…over and over and over again. [...]

Practical Intuition

A Column by Dale KetchamAs a writer have you ever found yourself down on your knees asking for help from above? Perhaps because of a scene that isn’t working but you can’t figure out why? Or maybe you’ve written twenty thousand words headed nowhere?
It was at such a time when I happened upon a book [...]