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
WriteOnCon
This link is no longer active. https://writeoncon.org/ What is WriteOnCon? WriteOnCon is a three-day online children’s book conference for writers and illustrators of picture books, middle grade, young adult, and even new adult. It was founded in 2010 and is now run by a new team of writers who are Continue Reading
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What is an old soul?
And how can you use this to help with characterization? I’m an old soul. I’ve known this since I was in grade school…since I could conceptualize what a soul was…or at least that’s what I recall. I related with my older peers better than I would ones my own age and 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
Answering questions about my work- then and now
It’s a good idea to have responses in mind when answering questions about your work. Not only will you need to have these questions down pat when pitching to agents or publishers, but it will help you with the other aspects of submitting your novel such as the query or synopsis. So think 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