Is e-Publishing right for your genre? by Piper Denna

Which genres really do well as ebooks? In the past, erotica and all its sub-genres sold best in digital format. With thousands of readily available titles available instantly and discreetly, ebooks are the format of choice for readers who want something a bit more stimulating than your average romance.
Today, however, the market is changing. Just [...]

Writing Wide by Billie A Williams

Thanks to Billie A Williams for the guest post. Follow Billie on Twitter.
Learning all the rules so you can break them to write your own truth and expand your knowledge, imagination, and interpretation of the life around you.
Wide lines on wide ruled paper are what you used when you first began to write so that [...]

3 Synopsis Samples

If you’re anything like me, you learn through example. So here are links to three synopsis samples/examples. Read them and take notes on how they incorporate the storyline, characters, and other important details. Pay close attention to how they transition from scene to scene and wrap up the ending of the story as well.

Carolyn Jewel [...]

A Hard look at 2009

With only a few days left of 2009 it’s time to take a look, a hard look, at what went well, what went wrong, which goals you achieved, which goals fell short in 2009, and what you need to improve on in 2010.
Let’s start with a question.
What went right in 2009?

In what ways did you [...]

3 Reasons Your Synopsis Stinks

Is your synopsis garnering a lack luster response? Not placing in contests? Picked on by your critique partners? Yeah, we’ve all been there. Here are three common problems that might be holding your synopsis back. So read on and tackle your problem synopsis.
1. Your synopsis doesn’t include the ending.
By definition, this is what a synopsis [...]

Building A Rock Solid Query Letter

Author: Sophfronia Scott
Recently I reviewed a client’s query letter. It was a hard working query letter, detailing the marketing prospects for the book, her own glowing credentials and the contacts she possessed that would help her publicize the book. But she left out one teeny weeny thing: she didn’t say what her book was about! [...]

Quick Tip: Write Daily

Even if you’re like me and you tend to write in giant bursts (my top wordcount is 6500 words in a single evening) it’s important to write something each day. It’s important to be thinking about your writing each day. Even if you’re polishing a proposal or making revisions for an agent, write a paragraph [...]

How to Write a Query Letter to Sell Your Book or Novel by Brian Scott

A query letter is a formal letter sent by a writer to literary agents, editors and publishers. This is a way for writers to propose their book ideas. If you are a writer, aspiring to get your work published, then writing a persuasive query letter is vital for you to achieve your goal. After all, [...]

One-sentence synopsis is the secret of a compelling query by Jan Bear

Many writers dread writing a synopsis as they prepare to query editors and agents about their completed novel. But this vitally important bit of writing doesn’t have to be hard, and it can help the writing process as well as the marketing.
The best time to write your synopsis is before you start writing your novel [...]

Cover/Query Letters

Author: Christine Harrell
The recipe for creating the perfect cover/query letter is simple: give editors and agents what they want, no more and no less. That’s it. Basically, you need to prepare a letter that provides what the editor/agent requires and then “gets out of the way” so your writing (as illustrated by your work) stands [...]