How to Pitch Agents at a Writers’ Conference
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If you’re looking for an agent, I have got a long, intensive webinar just for you. It’s a 2-hour intensive called “Everything You Need to Know About Getting an Agent: Queries, Synopses, Pitching, Copyright and More,” on Thursday, July 5, 2012, and it includes a critique of your query letter along with the webinar. I will also answer any and all questions you submit to me. It’s a bonanza of information that includes advice on finding agents, queries, synopses, and more. Read more
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, : . The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments You Ask , We Answer : Help I got an assignment and the editor didn’t mention how much they . pay I hear this all the : time The editor asked me to write up this piece and gave me a deadline , but he didn’t mention pay or rights . When will he tell me Even worse , sometimes I : hear I wrote up my article for the editor . How do I know how much he’s going to pay me , and when I don’t know why editors do this to writers . They know we need to know how much and when we’re going to get paid . And yet , many of them will ask me if I want to do an assignment without letting me know how much I’ll get paid . How much I can expect to earn
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June 2012 marked my fourth time speaking at the Clarksville Writers Conference in Tennessee. Organized by Pat Winn, this event is always attended by great people who are ridiculously great to talk to. I debuted two new speeches -- "Your Publishing Options Today" as well as "Create Your Writer Platform," the latter of which was based off my book coming out in fall 2012. I've included some pictures below from the event... Read more
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, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
: , home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List
The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments 4 Ways to Land Travel Writing Assignments By Thinking Creatively By Kayleen Reusser Did you know I now pay 50 for guest posts Linda A few years ago , my husband and I rode the Discovery Riverboat on the Chena River near Fairbanks , Alaska . As a freelance travel writer , I’m always on the lookout for stories and interesting experiences . During the relaxing and informative three-hour trip , I took pages of notes and shot dozens of photos . Upon our return , I queried my Features editor at the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel newspaper . Prior to the trip , the editor had not run travel stories , but I figured it couldn’t hurt to try . The
. , home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List
The other day I had a discussion with a quality assurance (QA) lead that made me think about a time a few years ago that I consider my “best days as a technical writer,” if such a thing exists. It was a time when I was in a much better writing flow. In our discussion, the QA lead explained that he recently attended scrum master ... more »
The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments The Renegade Writer Blog Is Now Paying for Guest Posts I mentioned this on my mailing list last week , but thought I’d post it here on the blog as well . My mailing list subscribers get first dibs on all kinds of goodies , so if you want to be on the cutting edge of Renegade Writer announcements , contests , and offers as well as get free copies of my e-books 10 Query Letters That Rocked and Editors Unleashed : Magazine Editors Growl About Their Writer Peeves then join the list today The big news is that I’m now paying 50 for guests posts for the Renegade Writer blog . I feel writers deserve pay for their work . I haven’t solicited
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments How to Develop a Lucrative Freelance Writing Niche By Daisha Cassel Imagine a niche writer , and you might think of someone who is limited . Boxed in . Pigeonholed . Or maybe you actually envy niche writers because they obviously have years of deep experience in a particular field which they can now apply to their writing . And you don’t . I haven’t been writing for decades , nor do I have any spectacular educational or career experience in the topic I write about most . I write for a variety of publications , from national and local mags to those entertaining booklets that grocery stores hand out before the holidays . Most importantly
: Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Sunday , June 17, 2012 Speculation on The Heart of Fire As a Magic the Gathering player of many years , I spent a lot of time reading Mark Rosewater's posts and try to crack his cryptic clues about what cards will be released in the next set . nbsp So when Michael J . Ward , author of Destiny Quest started releasing descriptions of careers for book 2 I put my rumour mill hat on and started trying to work out what it's all going to be . about The careers have the flavour of being in contact with nature and also being ousted from civilisation . nbsp There is also mention of the Church being the enemy . nbsp It seems that you will be fighting the Church as some outcast
: Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Saturday , June 16, 2012 Blood of the Zombies cover revealed I'd be remiss in not publishing this bit of news despite the fact that you've probably already seen it Scott Malthouse has published it and so has Galactrix who has just started a Fighting Fantasy play through blog So the cover for Blood of the Zombies , due out early this August , has been released and also it will have a green spine and the FF logo . nbsp I'm glad that there are elements of the original there as they will fit in well with the rest of the Puffin collection , the books that most of us grew up with . nbsp Looking at it , however , I couldn't help but get a feeling that there was something
The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments How to Write a Letter of Introduction That Will Impress Editors and Get You More Freelance Writing Gigs I get a lot of questions about LOIs , so I decided to create this primer on one of the most valuable marketing tools in a freelance writer’s . arsenal What is an LOI LOI stands for Letter of Introduction , which is basically a letter where you introduce yourself to an editor or prospect and let them know you’re available for assignments . Once you have a good LOI draft , you can use it over and over , tweaking it for each . publication Who do I send LOIs to LOIs work well for trade magazines and custom publications , where the
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
: : . Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Tuesday , June 12, 2012 Adventurer : The Solo Role Playing Game why gamebooks need something like this . Those of you who have been keeping track of things on Facebook and Twitter already know that Shane Garvey author of QUERP Battlemage and the Fabled Lands RPG and I are starting on a project called the Adventurer : The Solo Role Playing Game The aim of this project is to create a simple yet versatile RPG system that can be applied to gamebooks . nbsp I had been thinking about this for a while and had taken preliminary steps into making my own system wihch is what I told Shane over Facebook . nbsp Then the ball started rolling . nbsp I think an RPG system for
A few weeks ago there were a number of interesting posts floating around the web discussing the appropriateness of science blogging as a form of self-promotion (see this post by Scicurious for an excellent backgrounder) . This is an issue that I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about – communicating with people about our own research…
If there’s one business buzzword that you hear all over the place, “collaboration” must rank in the top 10. When it comes to technical writing, if we open our arms to collaboration, giving a warm embrace to “collaborative authoring” is only one more little step. It feels so tolerant and embracing to be collaborative. It fits in with Web 2.0 and the trend toward interactivity. ... more »
PDF version This is a story about my journey to wikis and back again. The Need for Shared Ownership Several years ago, I worked in a department that produced products for senior leadership in our organization. I was the only technical writer, one of the first hired as a technical writer in fact. I used Madcap Flare exclusively to create and publish documentation in the ... more »
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
: Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Thursday , June 7, 2012 Warlock's Bounty Android app review I'm having a bit of an Android app session . nbsp I've already reviewed the excellent Pirates and Traders and now I'm going to review Warlock's Bounty . nbsp I like gamebooks I hope you noticed I like Magic the Gathering I consider Mark Rosewater to be my creativity guru and still read his articles despite not having played MTG for a few years so when I heard that there would be an Android app which is a gamebook where the player fights combats using cards in a style similar to Magic the Gathering , I jumped for joy . nbsp Throw in the fact that the gamebook part is written by Jonathon Green and we're onto a
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
I’m giving an STC webinar this Thursday titled “Creating Help in a Wiki Environment.” Here’s the description: Creating Help in a Wiki Environment Thursday, 7 June | 4:00–5:00 PM EDT (GMT-4) One advantage to working in a wiki environment is to enable collaboration among a community of users. Without this collaboration, wikis offer little more than ease of publishing. But how do you build a ... more »
: Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Monday , June 4, 2012 Pirates and Traders Android app review I really enjoyed writing Sharkbait's Revenge . nbsp It really got me into the whole pirate thing which is why I love the Android app Pirates and Traders there is a basic ad supported version for free or the Gold version without ads and with game perks for a bargain 3.25 This is a game set in the 17th century Caribbean with you as a swashbuckling captain of a ship . nbsp As the title suggests , you will come across many other characters , mainly pirates and traders . nbsp Being a pirate or a trader are also the main routes that you can take to making your fortune . nbsp Pirates and traders offers you tons of
: . Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Sunday , June 3, 2012 Orphan paragraphs and why they are used . Paragraph 1 is purple , meaning that it is an orphan . paragraph Orphan paragraph is a term I've borrowed from the gamebook program ADVELH It refers to a paragraph where there is no instruction in the text to turn to that paragraph . However , there are many reasons why a gamebook would have an orphan paragraph and here they . are You start at the paragraph You are not told to turn to a paragraph because you start at that paragraph OK , you might have been told in the background but you haven't been told to turn there from another paragraph However , you may have to choose to turn to a paragraph from a