Alright witches and wizards, now that the release of the first installment of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is just a few weeks away, I thought I’d break out the butterbeer and pumpkin juice and celebrate one of the greatest series of books in history, Muggle or otherwise… HARRY POTTER! Confession. I came a bit […]
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Page Critique Monday: 8/16/10
Monday! In a further further-attempt to make the blog more navigable, I’ve gone back and updated the post labels so that hopefully they are a bit more comprehensive, and I will try to continue to be good about that. See, watch this. Monkeys. Now I shall tag the post monkeys! Also every post is better […]
The Greatest Strength of a Writer: Willpower
In a strange twist of either delusions of grandeur or masochism, writers have done their best to convince the world that writing is a wondrous pursuit filled with nothing but sudden bursts of inspiration and creativity after painful writer’s block. You know how it goes in the movies and on TV: The morose writer will […]
This Week in Publishing 3/19/10
This week in March Madn… I mean publishing. The big news this week in publishing has, as usual, to do with Amazon and Apple and that whole iPad thing. Scrambling before the April 3rd release of the iCan’tWaitToGetOnePad, the so-called Agency Four major publishers (so-called because they’ve agreed to “agency model” deals with Apple) are […]
The Secret Strength of Killer Queries: Specificity
People often say to me: “Listen, agent person (they don’t actually call me this). You agent blogging people always talk about what not to do in a query, why not talk about what people should do in a query!” The people have spoken. They want things they should do. And here’s what I think is […]
It’s a Great Time to Be An Author
Read the publishing news these days and there’s so much doom and gloom and anxiety about e-books and print books and booksellers and publishers in trouble and authors getting squeezed and the midlist dropped and it’s enough to make you want to hide under the bed lest a stray Kindle impale you in the forehead. […]
