Last week’s #SFFpit event on Twitter proved a smashing success! Leading up to pitch day, we had a few events: a warm-up event the week before, when I challenged authors to craft pitches for Lord of the Rings or Star Wars. The day before the contest, many authors made intros on the hashtag with “two truths and a lie.” […]
Articles on Agents and Publishing
Welcome! Here you'll find articles on the traditional route of publishing: querying and landing a literary agent, revising, editing, going on submission, and getting published. These also cover the state of the publishing industry and my guesses about its future.
The Winners of #SFFpit
The first #SFFpit Twitter pitching event for sci-fi and fantasy authors was a HUGE success! An hour before the event, I thought we might have as many as a dozen literary agents stopping by the hashtag to read pitches. Turns out, we had more than twice that: 26 agents from 20 different agencies by my […]
Who’s Coming to #SFFpit
It’s well after midnight as I write this, and the #SFFpit Twitter party begins in less than 8 hours. It’s time for the last but most-requested reveal: those agents and editors who will be reading all of your pitches tomorrow. I’ve updated this page to list even more agents and editors who showed up to […]
One Day Until the #SFFpit Pitching Contest
Tomorrow is the #SFFpit pitching contest, a Twitter event for authors, editors, and agents of science fiction and fantasy. From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. CENTRAL time, authors with completed manuscripts who are seeking representation/publication will pitch their work under the #SFFpit hashtag. It’s very similar to, and in fact inspired by, Brenda Drake’s #PitMad. […]
Anatomy of a Bad Query Letter
In this day and age, anyone can write a novel. Getting it published, however, is often a long and difficult process. The first significant hurdle — at least for those authors hoping to approach large publishing houses — is landing a literary agent. And the typical way that one approaches a literary agent is with […]
