Sentences with phrase «from aspiring authors»

And finally, there were stories from aspiring authors who were at the beginning stages of their writing project and had yet to develop a relationship with either an agent or an editor.

After my cookbook was published I heard similar stories from aspiring authors about the challenges they faced without an editor and / or an agent.

The bad news is that book bloggers are flooded with book review requests from aspiring authors looking to get free publicity just like you.

Most literary agents receive thousands of queries each year from aspiring authors, but take on only a handful of new clients.

Yeah, I get comments from aspiring authors who say: I loved your book and it's so awesome that you're indie!

It's the day my debut romantic suspense novel, Necessary Risk, releases, and I officially transition from aspiring author to published author.

Already the worldâ $ ™ s largest romance publisher, Harlequin should know better than anyone else in the industry the importance of treating authors professionally and with the respect due the craft; Harlequin should have the internal fortitude to resist the lure of easy money taken from aspiring authors who want only to see their work professionally published and may be tempted to believe that this is a legitimate avenue towards those goals.

If some literary agencies are collecting money from aspiring authors to simply read (or pretend to read) their books, what is their motivation to get off their butts and do the hard work of selling those authors books?

«Platform, platform, platform — it's what all literary agents and traditional publishers want from their aspiring authors.

It will also help you get your book blogged and go from aspiring author to published author.

In the past few weeks, I've been getting a lot of questions from aspiring authors about Twitter.

The first two days play host to CraftFest, a time for writers to learn from the greats on topics pertaining to suspense writing, as well as AgentFest, in which over sixty agents and editors attended to take pitches from aspiring authors, a rare head count of talent for writing conferences.

Create a professional web presence on your own with the free PDF Guide to Aspiring Author Websites — with advice from the aspiring author website series and advice from website reviews by Kathleen MacIver and me, assembled to apply more generally.

As a result, I do not accept LinkedIn invitations from aspiring authors.

Tweet After the smattering of positive feedback I usually get from readers seeking to know more about the realities of Australian book publishing, it was thoroughly refreshing to read this lambasting from aspiring author Jeff Martin in response to one of my most popular posts (from 2012), Australian writers: think twice before diving into the publishers» slush pile.

Part of the problem may be the way agents and editors sometimes talk about the slush pile — that never - ending supply of query letters and unsolicited manuscripts from aspiring authors — as if they were addressing a patch of stubborn basement mold.

And now that I actually have a book out, one of my absolute favorite aspects of being published is getting e-mails from aspiring authors looking for inspiration in the midst of their discouragement.

I'm not arguing that a novel must be short to be great; I'm simply suggesting that if you want to make the transition from aspiring author to published author in as smooth a manner as possible, you may want to save your epic for your sophomore release.

From an aspiring author, the most popular question is: «how do I know that my idea is a good one?»

More than 9,000 writers, from aspiring authors to seasoned pros, took part in the 2014 Digital Book World and Writer's Digest Author Survey, presented at this week's Digital Book World conference.

Actionable tips from those authors about specific aspects of what made the difference in moving them from aspiring author to publication.