Getting Published
Getting Yourself Noticed Part II
Guest blogger, Camy Tang, the master of marketing oneself, is here to help us get ready for the ACFW conference in a couple of weeks. For Seniors: By this stage, you’ve met several agents/editors and feel comfortable talking with them. You don’t have that Oh-my-gosh-you’re-an-editor/agent look or I’m-naked-in-front-of-a-crowd look when you talk to them. This…
Getting Yourself Noticed Part I
Guest blogger, Camy Tang, the master of marketing oneself, is here to help us get ready for the ACFW conference in a couple of weeks. Meeting editors and agents at conference The best place to meet editors and agents is at a scheduled appointment. Some conferences will schedule these for you, other times you must…
Conference Confidence: Notebook
Supplies you’ll need for your notebook: (1) 1 1/2 in binder (10-20) plastic pages to put your papers in (I’ll totally at a loss to what you call these things!) (1) pack of dividers (2-3) Baseball card pages or business card holders. You can get these at Walmart Business Cards Thank You cards with stamps…
Conference Confidence: Know Your Editors
Here’s a short but sweet assignment. Print out the entire ACFW (or other conference) editor and agent list. Then study them! Visit their websites. Read their guidelines. Highlight the people who are accepting your genre and forget those publishing houses that are not looking for what you write. Know what your editor wants before you…
Pitching & One Sheets
Follow up from last pitches: Thanks everyone for you help with my pitch. I’m still tweaking it, but here is the latest. Feel free to add your two cents in the comment section. Mari Duggins, an ambitious archeology professor, longs for the approval she believes her dream job as co-host of the local morning show…
Pitching Your Novel
So you’ve finished your novel and your ready to set your baby loose. But if you were asked to describe your novel in a few sentences, would you be able to do it? Some people call it an elevator pitch. The little sound bite that will catch an editor’s attention, if you were…
Are You Ready for Conference Series?!?
I’m starting a new series called Conference Confidence in an attempt to get myself ready and others motivated for ACFW in September (but my tips will work for any writer’s conference.) I won’t claim I know it all, or know much for that matter 🙂 But what I do know is that everything I’ve…
Word Count and Counting
I’m at 17,717 words on my cozy mystery which should end up being close to 70,000. I’m making slow progress, but at least it’s progress. I took the advice of Randy Ingermanson and allowed my self to be bad. My last couple of chapters have been bad! But at least the skeleton of the story…
My Son May be a Published Author Before Me!
We were vacationing on Pensacola Beach when I opened this email! (Thank God for high speed internet hotels) Needless to say, we were all thrilled and surprised! Joey next big goal is to audition for Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader! One thing I’ve learned with this son of mine, is that anything is…
Being Published vs. Being a Good Writer
I’ve been thinking about being published. Not in my usual way of being anxious and overly driven, but in a way that’s made me wonder what my first published novel will be like. Will it be gripping like Mary DeMuth’s first novel, Watching the Tree Limbs, which kept me turning the page with Mara’s unique…