Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
Helping authors achieve their dreams
Life. It’s deep, right? I mean, just look at the word. Life. Wow, man. Just, wow. But here’s the thing. Real life is very often extremely boring. That’s one of the main reasons we read and write books in the first place. Want to know one of the absolute worst ways you can defend yourself […]
I get quite a lot of questions about prologues. Are they necessary? Do agents like them? Should they be included with partial manuscript requests? Consider this a post on all things prologue. I’m going to cover: What’s a prologue? Typically, a prologue is 3-5 pages of introductory material that is written while the author is […]
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 […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
