Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > You can learn from failure—if you pay attention Did you achieve the goals you set? Did you exceed them? Miss by a hair or fall woefully short? Would you like to talk…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > For many of us, the hardest part of the submission process comes after you’ve finally gotten brave enough to send off the submission. Whether you’re submitting to an agent or an editor,…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Things to do while you’re out on submission You’ve just hit send. Your query is off to your dream agent. There are only so many times you can hit the refresh button…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > If you’ve been a long-time reader of the eNews, you know that I often list markets that aren’t technically for children’s writers. I’ve done so in this issue, for example. There are…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Advice to take your entry to the top. Have you heard the exciting news? The Institute for Writers is now accepting submissions for its Mystery First Pages Writing Contest! Every quarter, IFW…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Tips for getting past the gatekeeper Before the internet, if you didn’t have a way to contact an agent, you had to mail your manuscript to their office. If the agent had…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Throughout my career, I’ve written for children and for adults. My magazine work covers both. And I have books for kids and books for adults. For me, writing is about freedom. I…
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > How to avoid an automatic rejection You’ve worked so hard to put together a submission package to an agent. You don’t want to waste all that effort only to get an automatic rejection. The best way to avoid…
176: Break into Publishing
November 22, 2019
Successful submissions require research and using my market guides. Putting time into pre-submission activities decreases the number of avoidable rejections.
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Finding and following submission guidelines Every literary agent has different specialties, likes and dislikes. You want to customize your submission to each agent individually, so the first thing you need to do…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Not every children’s writer needs an agent. Many areas of publishing are completely accessible to unagented writers. But for novelists, especially young adult novelists, having an agent affords a writer considerable benefit.…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > What sources matter most? Today, we’re wrapping Research Month on the IFW blog. What good is all that research without a good bibliography? This article comes from our book SEARCHING: A RESEARCH…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Most successful writers are researching all the time. We just call it reading. Now there are two ways to read. There’s reading to pass the time and that’s a valuable type of…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > In last week’s post, Pitfalls of Research and How to Avoid Them Part 1, Paula Morrow shared how not using your writing research in the right way can lead to rejection letters…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Research Can Take You to Shady Places Since most of my online behavior jumps between a handful of sites (mostly writing sites), I rarely come into contact with viruses or malware of…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Our October focus is research. Whether you’re writing fiction or nonfiction, research should be an integral part of your writing process. Of course, none of us want do all that research only…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > As a writer who regularly does extensive research, I’ve noticed some benefits to research as a lifestyle. Not only does quality research improve my writing, it often improves my life. Finding Answers…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > In last week’s post, Steps on the Research Road Part 1, Joan Broerman and Marie-Therese Miller shared tips for using books, online searches, and databases to research topics for our fiction and…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > You know that tiring toddler stage where your child asks questions and never stops? Well, I never grew out of that stage. Introduce any topic about which I know nothing, and I’ll…