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

working methods

Find a Working Method that Works for You
My current WIP novel is at a curious stage. I’ve finished two drafts and now have feedback from two readers. I collated all the critiques onto one printout and have made even more notes on these pages.
So, the creative writing problem has been how to proceed from here.

Stress

Writers Plan Around Life Events
Do you plan your writing year? Do you plan a month or a season ahead? How do you deal with stressful periods of life?
I view my writing as my work, something I am privileged to do every day. I do try to plan ahead and make sure I’m accomplishing something. I [...]

Between Projects

I am between projects.
I don’t have a WIP. No work in progress and not sure what to do next?
One novel is being read by friends and it may have a major flaw that will mean gutting part of it. We’ll see. Another novel is making its way into the publishing world. We’ll have to wait [...]

Manuscript Length

How Firm are Book Publisher’s Guidelines on Book Length?
I had a question come up last week: how hard and fast are the rules about the length of a picture book manuscript? Can you get by with 1900 words? 2000 words? 2500 words?
The length requirements for every genre, from picture books to easy [...]

Quoted at the Conference

This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series Why YOU Should Attend a National ConferenceMany speakers used quotes in their presentations or made memorable statements. Here’s my collection of quotes from the conference:

About True Love: “It’s great when a publisher loves my work, but a contract is better; a contract is True [...]

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 [...]

Am I a Fearless Writer?

Fearless Writing is highly recommended if you are in a time of your life when you need to face the issues surrounding creativity, the whys of your work, or how to keep writing and the writing life in balance with the rest of your life.

Fearless Writing #2

Last night we had the next session of Fearless Writing, led by Crescent Dragonwagon.

Fearless Writing #1

That first meeting, we were asked what challenges we face as writers, what burden we wanted lifted, what questions we wanted answered about our work.