Key Elements of a Successful Query Letter A query letter may be essentially equivalent to a standard cover letter that would accompany a resume when applying for a position with a company. Whereas your actual story submission would be equivalent to the resume. However, highlighting the following criteria when crafting Continue Reading
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Featured Agent: Rachel Leftosky from Cooke McDermidAgency
Excerpt taken from: CookeMcDermid Excerpt taken from: Rachel Letofsky, Associate Agent, is a graduate of both the Humber Creative Book Publishing Program and the University of Toronto, where she specialized in English literature. She joined The Cooke Agency in 2010. She frequently travels throughout Canada and the US to various Continue Reading
Featured Agent: Quressa Robinson of Folio Literary Management
Literary Agent Quressa Robinson Team — Folio Literary Management Excerpt from: Publisher’s Marketplace Quressa Robinson joined Folio Literary Management in 2022 after working at previous agencies, including the Nelson Literary Agency, and as an editor for five years. She is originally from San Francisco, but has been living in New Continue Reading
Using Pinterest for writing inspiration
I am a Pinterest addict…well, I’m a recovering Pinterest addict that is. There are too many visual feasts to possibly devour in one sitting, so reoccurring visits are darn near mandatory. I browse it for numerous reasons such as gardening tips, recipes, DIY’s, hobbies… the list goes on, but most Continue Reading
There’s no market for that.
The first writing conference I attended was online. You had to have either Young Adult or Middle Grade stories in order to get feedback or participate on forums. There was a discussion panel made up of publishers, agents, and authors of children’s books where you could ask anything. Pretty cool, right? I Continue Reading
A post about writing a post
I don’t know about anyone else, but I feel a certain amount of frustration when I see the amount of blog posts wading in the pile of drafts, just daring me to hit publish. But I cant. Because there’s just. something. missing. Maybe it’s not useful or not entertaining enough, or it just sounds dumb when Continue Reading
Leave it alone!
Here are my thoughts on immediately revising a first draft: Don’t do it. Just don’t. Let it sit for a while. Take the time to work on other projects, get caught up on your to read list…do anything but revise that infantile draft. I say this with a heavy heart Continue Reading
Word of the day…Positivity
Well, it’s not the easiest thing to achieve, so how does one do it when they are knee-deep in revisions or just barely staying afloat through the rough draft? Try giving credit where credit is due. I think many times we as writers undervalue our work. Especially as it morphs through the critique cycle. Nothing Continue Reading
Beating the block
Not sure how it happens for others, but writer’s block seems to kick into high gear when my stress levels have reached dangerously high altitudes. When I’m on the brink of tossing it all out the window, I take a step back and run through this checklist to regain the Continue Reading
Do writing short-cuts exist?
I heard this question posed in a chat room and while the rest of the room flooded that individual with the correct do’s and don’ts of writing, I sat silent. It was a good question. Then I began to think about my own process and how it’s evolved since I Continue Reading