Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
Helping authors achieve their dreams
One of the most difficult parts of writing a query letter: sticking the landing. It’s so important to tie things together and leave the agent wanting to smash the reply button to ask for the manuscript. But so many query letters I see just kind of limply fizzle out. Here’s some advice on landing the […]
I’ve worked with many older writers over the years, and one of the things I appreciate most about writing is that it’s never too late to write well. With the recent success of Theo of Golden by Allen Levi, a runaway success by a 70-year-old debut author, it occurred to me that I’ve never written […]
The best books are ones that disappear in our hands. When we’re reading a novel we love, we enter a fugue state and can’t turn the pages fast enough. The outside world disappears, and we get lost in lands we would never otherwise explore. But we can’t get into that flow if the hand of […]
Getting good feedback on a novel is absolutely crucial to its ultimate success. We all have writing blind spots, it’s tricky to know what is and isn’t on the page, and we need to hear reactions from other people in order to improve the writing and storytelling. Every writer should get feedback prior to submitting […]
At the start of 2025, I posted some un-producivity tips on slowing down and embracing fallow periods that may be crucial for your creativity. Joke was on me! Little did I know 2025 would be one of the busiest years of my life. I’m stumbling rather than sprinting into 2026. So let’s get real. Since […]
We writers can sometimes get so caught up in our characters and settings that we forget that we are not actually transcribing the events in an alternate world. We are storytelling. As such, it’s crucial to remember the reader on the other side of the scenes you’re constructing. In my editing work, I often see […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
