Oct 31 2009
November 1 Links
- Literary agent Janet Reid provides an awesome checklist for query letters.
- The Rejectionist recounts some wildly bad query letters. Keep your chin up– no matter how bad your story is, it’s not about an air traffic controller doing battle with a spaceship using his skills as an ex-quarterback. (And, if it is, please go into some other line of work).
- Managing Editor Kelli Collins at Redlines and Deadlines takes on adjectives and how to use them well.
- Flogging the Quill lays out a very useful formula for structuring your story.
- The Rejectionist explains a common misunderstanding among the authors of children’s and young adult fiction. Namely, “Children and teenagers are YOUNG. Being YOUNG is not the same thing as being a MORON.”
- Anne Mini explains what should go into a novel submission package in excruciating detail. Helpful if you’re writing a novel but (unlike the above) absolutely irrelevant for comic book writers.
- Redlines and Deadlines tackles how to do a novel synopsis– this is aimed at romance authors but I think any novelist would benefit from it.
