Mar 13 2009
Archive for March 13th, 2009
Mar 13 2009
Some Advice for Novelists Seeking Agents
Unfortunately, many literary agents are dishonest and/or incompetent. Here are some tips to help you select an agent that knows what he’s doing.
Mar 13 2009
Site Tweak of the Week
Site titles play an important role in search engine optimization. A site named “Superhero Nation: a writing advice site” has a much better chance to place for a search like superhero writing advice than a site named just “Superhero Nation.” Site titles also helps draw people into your website by explaining what viewers will get out of your website.
For example, check out how a typical search for Superhero Nation appears on Google. The site name plays more prominently than the name of the article does.
Mar 13 2009
One of the Advantages of Getting a Literary Agent
Good literary agents only accept manuscripts with some potential, so having a good literary agent suggests to publisher that the work is worth looking at more closely.
According to Kris Waldherr…
“Of the hundreds (maybe thousand plus) of manuscripts I read during a six month period, only about 2% went onto consideration by an acquiring editor. None of them were acquired. This suggests why so many publishers have stopped reading manuscripts not submitted to them by agents or colleagues. Bottom line: reading unsolicited submissions is simply not cost effective.”
