Literary Agent Rachelle Gardner is offering people who join her site and/or “like” her on Facebook one of two prizes: either a $20 Amazon Gift Card, or a free query critique and 20-minute follow-up...
All this talk about querying and agents (okay, two posts so far) may have left you wondering, why bother with an agent anyway? Can’t I just take my precious manuscript directly to a publisher,...
Let’s start by saying what a query is not. It is not a proposal. A proposal is typically for a non-fiction work. Say, for example, you have a great idea for a book, “Speaking...
I have completed a couple of novels, but I have yet to submit a query (this won’t be true for long, Lord willing). Why, then, do I think I have anything useful to say...
