Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
There are two query elements we commonly see, but hope to never see again. They are:
#1
“I’ve been writing since the day I was born with a pencil in my hand.”
Or some such impressive statement …
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Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
There are two query elements we commonly see, but hope to never see again. They are:
“I’ve been writing since the day I was born with a pencil in my hand.”
Or some such impressive statement …
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Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
I was out hiking the Manitou Incline here in Colorado — it’s only a mile to the top but has a vertical gain of 2,000 feet (aka: steep). Then it’s a 4-mile hike on a gentler …
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Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
Rejection is part of the process of pursuing publishing, and I had to give my share of it at the Orange County writers’ conference a couple of weeks ago. But lest you think rejection ends once you …
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Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
If you’re an unpublished/unagented writer, then you probably know that writers’ conferences are a great place to meet agents and editors. But today I want to make clear: There are plenty of other good reasons to attend …
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Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
Yesterday I had a little epiphany that made me just the teensiest bit less enthusiastic about the brave new world of e-books.
I was flipping through the books I have on my Kindle Fire—hundreds of them already—and …
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Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
If you’ve been reading our blog and other agent blogs for awhile, you’re aware that the agent-client relationship can be a wonderful, long-term, productive association, but like any important relationship, it’s not always easy. Sometimes it takes …
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Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
You’ve read Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass, right? But if you’re unpublished, it’s too soon to have a breakout novel.
You need a break-in novel.
As an unpublished novelist, you’re in the position of not …
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Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
1. Use a generic greeting (To Whom It May Concern or my favorite, Dear Sirs) or address it to the wrong name. (Our names are Janet, Wendy, Rachel, Mary, and Rachelle. There are no “sirs” …
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Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
Lately I’ve been coaching several of my clients through the process of coming up with a good title for their book, so I thought I’d share my tips with you.
Let’s start by acknowledging a few things. …
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*Before Seeking Publication
Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
There is a cliché in publishing that by the time a writer finally gets published, she already has a whole stack of novels completed and hidden in a drawer, never to see the light …