No matter how you feel about the changes to publishing in the past decade, you have to admit that it offers some new options to a would-be author. Before the rise of digital publishing in the late 2000’s, authors who’d written a book had essentially two choices for getting it published: Submit the work to […]
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.
In Publishing, No News Is Good News
We’re deep into the reading period for Pitch Wars 2016, during which the mentors (agented authors and industry professionals) read the submissions from contest entrants and agonize over the impossible task of choosing one. Some mentors, like myself and my co-mentor Michael Mammay, received well over 100 entries. That’s a lot of reading, which naturally […]
The Fifth SFFpit and Twitter Pitch Fatigue
The 5th semi-annual #SFFpit Twitter pitching event took place on June 23rd, 2016. As always, I used the Twitter API to capture all of the pitches, which paint a picture of the current body of aspiring SF/F writers. Author Participation We had 556 participating authors this June, which is comparable to December’s turnout (578), but down 18% from last […]
Letting Go of Your Work by Bishop O’Connell
I’m pleased to host Bishop O’Connell, whose book The Returned releases today from Harper Voyager. It’s an American faerie tale featuring a place called the Rogue Court. I don’t know about you, but I’m a sucker for all things rogue-related. Check it out at Amazon, B&N.com, or iTunes. But first, read what Bishop has to say about letting go. Letting […]
The Return of #SFFpit and #SFFchat
The twice-annual Twitter pitching event for authors, agents, and editors of sci-fi/fantasy returns this Thursday, June 23rd. Please visit the main SFFpit page to review the event guidelines, age category / genre hashtags, etc. The quick version is this: between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Eastern, participating authors get 10 tweets for each complete-but-unpublished manuscript. […]
