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Writer Survey!

August 26, 2009 by Nathan Bransford 258 Comments

In the comments section of last week’s Genre Poll, some people wanted to know more about who exactly is reading this blog anyway. What’s the ratio of published to unpublished, male to female, age, etc.? So here’s a quick series of polls that will hopefully demystify the demographics. Please click through from e-mail or your […]

Filed Under: The Writing Life Tagged With: Life of a Writer, rhetorical questions, You Tell Me

New Year Reminders

January 6, 2009 by Nathan Bransford 51 Comments

Last night’s Bachelor: not over it. Barely able to discuss. We’d better move on. Um. Not that I watched it. It’s come to my attention that this blog has been nominated for something called a Weblog Award! If you feel inclined to vote for this blog or for one of the other (more deserving) nominees […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: How to Write a Query Letter, literary agents, rhetorical questions, The Bachelor

Kindle Kindle Burning Bright?

November 27, 2007 by Nathan Bransford 49 Comments

First off, a housecleaning matter — if you e-mailed me between Thursday and Sunday and you haven’t yet heard from me, please e-mail me again. Our servers were down and your e-mail has been eaten by the server monsters and is now in e-mail heaven (or e-mail hell if it started with a rhetorical question). […]

Filed Under: E-books Tagged With: Amazon, E-Readers, Kindle, publishing industry, rhetorical questions

Death, locusts, plagues, queries beginning with rhetorical questions

August 27, 2007 by Nathan Bransford 77 Comments

Lock the doors. Close the windows. Make sure the kids are safe. And for the love of Justin Bobby, stay away from the computer. There is a scourge sweeping the nation. Normally I am a mild-mannered fellow. I always wave “thanks” when a driver lets me into their lane, and when pigeons hit me in […]

Filed Under: Query Letters Tagged With: How to Write a Query Letter, rhetorical questions

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