Ten Things You Need to Know About: Writing as a Career
Ten Things You Need to Know About: Writing as a Career 1. Find the balance between writing what you love and what will sell. Sometimes you have to face the reality that the kind...
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What Else You Should Be Reading: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
There are many things to be discovered in the wonderful world of Twitter. One of those things is a contest regularly run by a certain literary website for a new columnist. Successful auditions land...
What Else You Should Be Reading: Query Shark
Writing, says nearly everyone in the entire writing world, is about rejection. You should be proud of your rejections, they say. Count them. Frame them. Relish them, because rejection is how you learn what...
Writer, Agent, Editor: Careers in Publishing
I’m an English major, so I would love to know more about careers in publishing. One of the things I find people don’t know about publishing is exactly how many jobs you can do...
So, what do you do with an English degree?
One of my favorite professors once made an excellent point. No ivy league school offers a degree in business. Now, this is particularly relevant to my university because we have a fairly prestigious (and...
Four Types of Terrible Query Letters
The query letter is what is used to submit a piece of work to an agent in the book industry, and is one of the most difficult things a writer encounters (after writing the...
Getting an Agent: Three Vital Steps
I’d love to know about like…the usual process you have to go through to get a manuscript in order for sending off to an agent? One of the coolest things about young writers is...
I want your questions!
Lovely readers, you may have noticed my brief absence from my usual slot on Saturdays where I babble on about publishing and books and being a professional at this writer thing. Part of this...
Publishing Strategies: Traditional Publishing
It’s been a while, but it’s time we take a moment to talk about what is probably the most popular method of publishing: traditional publishing. Traditional publishing is that which has brought us all...
Why Do You Read Poetry?
Why do you read poetry? It’s not often I get asked this particular question, but it was posed the other night and I had to seriously think before I could answer. The...
