8 Sources of Market Info

Sell your novel! AND Your Other Writing
Where do you get marketing info that helps you decide when and where to submit?

General Market books. The Writer’s Digest market books are the best known and have a reputation for delivering up-to-date information.

Writer’s Market Deluxe 2010

3 Keys to a Successful School Visit

I just finished a great school visit. Driving home, I realized there were some keys to making it great.
Communication.
It’s essential to communicate with the venue effectively right from the first contact through the actual event. I try to respond within 24 hours to requests for

Writing Goals

What are Your Writing Goals?
What are you writing goals? Have they changed?
I know that one of my early writing goals was to write a great read-aloud picture book. And a second goal was to write a middle grade fantasy. Those are still my goals.
Yet, I’m working on a middle grade, character-driven (definitely NOT a [...]

Teens

I’m going today to a high school English class and writing class to talk about my writing process. It may not come up, but I’ve been thinking about what advice I would give a teen about becoming a fiction writer.
Advice on Becoming a Fiction Writer
Essentials
First, be a reader. Read widely.

Joelle Anthony

by Joelle Anthony
The guest post today is by Joelle Anthony, whose first novel will debut in Summer, 2010: Restoring Harmony (Putnam)
It’s always sad to me when a writer tells me that they really need to finish their novel so they can get an agent because they’ve been at this for a couple of years and [...]

Publicity tips

Publicity: Top 5 Things Every Author Should Do When a New Book Comes Out
This guest post is by Barbara Fisch & Sarah Shealy, Co-owners, Blue Slip Media, a children’s book publicity and marketing agency www.BlueSlipMedia.com

Current Contact List. Publicists at the major publishing houses are overworked and underpaid–they will welcome anything you can do to [...]

Meet Editors & Agents

The Arkansas SCBWI Conference is this weekend in Conway, AR.
Featured speakers are Anastasia Suen, Greenwillow editor Martha Mahilick, and agent Jennifer (Jaeger) Rofe, from the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
Earlier, I linked to the websites and blogs of the speakers.
Full registration information is available on the Arkansas SCBWI website.
If you’re anywhere [...]

5 Writing Tasks for Off Days

Ever have one of those off days? You don’t sleep and wake up grouchy. You’re half sick but not really sick enough to call it a sick day. You are just disgruntled and don’t know why.
5 Things to do on Off-Days
On those awful days, there are still tasks you can do to be a productive [...]

Hattie Big Sky

Kirby Larson, author of Newbery Honor book, HATTIE BIG SKY, says, “I didn’t know how to revise until. . .

Psychology of Revising: Gifted and Talented

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Psychology of Revision5 Days on Psychology of Revising
Hope
Fear and Humility, part 1
Fear and Humility, part 2
Gifted and Talented
Perseverance
Gifted and Talented
If you have finished a draft of a novel (however messy!), you are Gifted and Talented.
The fact that you are Gifted and Talented has an important [...]