Tag Archive

agents Amazon.com Angela Hoy article directories blogging blogs book marketing book promotion book proposals BookSurge challenge deadlines e-books editing essays expert status getting published how to write a book how to write a book proposal ideas journalism Linda Joy Myers Literary agent literary representation marketing memoir NANOWRIMO nonfiction writing platform platform building pod publishing promotion publicity publishing query letter query letters self-publishing social networking speaking traditional publishing Write Nonfiction in November writer's block writersweekly.com writing Writing Tips

What Query Letter Errors Mean to an Agent

Published on November 13, 2011 By Nina Amir

The adage says, “You only get one chance to make a first impression.” For writers, that first impression often gets made not in person but in writing with a query letter. In that document, which is sent to a literary agent (and sometimes to a small publisher) if you are looking for a traditional publisher [...]

Query Letters: Avoiding “The Oops Factor”

Published on November 13, 2010 By Nina Amir

Today Mike Larsen, a literary agent and author of How to Write a Book Proposal and How to Get a Literary Agent, offers another post on how to write a successful query letter–one that can gain the attention of an agent or acquisitions editor. He and his partner Elizabeth Pomada run the Larsen-Pomada literary agency [...]

Query Letters: The Hook, the Book and the Cook

Published on November 12, 2010 By Nina Amir

For those WNFIN participants writing books, once you have at least 25 or 30 pages completed and you know what content will comprise the rest of your manuscript, you can think about composing a query letter. This precursory to a book proposal gets sent out to agents or publishers to see if they have interest [...]