The Dos and Don’ts of Making School Visits: A Writer’s Survival Guide
Making school visits is a great way for children's authors to connect with their audience and make some extra sales. Alex Woolf shares some dos and don'ts of making school visits that he's learned over the years that will make the experience productive for all involved.
She’s Got to Have It: 10 Ways to Promote a Book
Promoting a book is the one thing all authors should do to help get it to potential readers. But what does that mean? Erika Hoffman shares 10 ways to promote a book she used that are usable by other authors.
Building The Yellow House: An Interview With National Book Award Finalist Sarah M. Broom
The National Book Award finalist answers 10 questions about her debut memoir The Yellow House.
6 Writing Group Best Practices: How to Lead a Successful Writers Group
Learn how to start and lead a successful writers group. In this post, John Peragine shares 6 writing group best practices, including limiting your group size, how to effectively share work, and more.
8 Tips for Attending Writer’s Conferences and Getting the Most From Your Writing Conference Experience
Here are eight tips for attending writer's conferences and getting the most from your writing conference experience from an editor who has been to more than 50 writing events of varying sizes across the country as a speaker and attendee.
Broadswords and Blasters: Market Spotlight
For this week’s spotlight market, we look at Broadswords and Blasters, a pulp magazine that's currently open to submissions from writers.
Literary Agents Seeking Under Represented and Unique Voices
Literary agents are gatekeepers of the publishing industry. Find literary agents open to submissions from under represented and unique voices in this post. List will be updated regularly.
How to Develop High-Concept Book Ideas to Find More Success With Your Writing
Whether discussing movies or books, most agents and editors are eager to find projects that are high concept. In this post, learn how to develop high-concept book ideas to find more success with your writing.
How to Hook a Literary Agent to Represent Writing and Get Published
Finding a literary agent is one thing, but the hard part is gaining representation. In this post, we share how to hook a literary agent to represent writing and get published by looking at the query letter, synopsis, book proposal, and sample pages.
100 Common Publishing Terms
Here’s a list of 100 common publishing terms and their definitions, including the meanings of ARC, high concept, simultaneous submissions, and so much more.
Women’s Fiction Literary Agents Open to Submissions
Literary agents are gatekeepers of the publishing industry. Find women's fiction literary agents open to submissions in this post. List will be updated regularly.
Pitching to Agents at a Writing Conference
Nervous about pitching to an agents at a writing conference? Valley of Shadows author Steven Cooper has a few tips to make sure your pitch is a success.
How to Write Successful Queries for Any Genre of Writing
Learn how to write successful queries for any genre of writing by breaking down the query letter and supplying links to example queries that worked.
Historical Fiction Literary Agents Open to Submissions
Literary agents are gatekeepers of the publishing industry. Find historical fiction literary agents open to submissions in this post. List will be updated regularly.
How to Publish a Young Adult Novel
Each genre of fiction has its own rules for getting published. In this article, we cover how to publish your young adult novel, including how to write a query letter and synopsis, example queries that worked as well as literary agents open to young adult submissions.
How to Find a Literary Agent: Finding Agents Appropriate for Your Writing
Literary agents are the gate keepers of the publishing world, but not all agents represent all genres of writing. This post shares how to find a literary agent appropriate for your writing project, including links to agents representing various genres.
Food and Cookbook Literary Agents Open to Submissions
Literary agents are gatekeepers of the publishing industry. Find food and cookbook literary agents open to submissions in this post. List will be updated regularly.
Memoir and Narrative Nonfiction Literary Agents Open to Submissions
Literary agents are gatekeepers of the publishing industry. Find memoir and narrative nonfiction literary agents open to submissions in this post. List will be updated regularly.
How Literary Agents Agree and Differ: Lessons From the Annual Writer’s Digest Conference
There are some things all agents want to see from writers, but they don't agree on everything. Here's how literary agents agree and differ on what they want from writers.
Thriller Literary Agents Open to Submissions
Literary agents are gatekeepers of the publishing industry. Find thriller literary agents open to submissions in this post. List will be updated regularly.
Four Tips for Indie Authors on Planning a Successful Book Tour
Book tours are a wonderful way to connect with readers. Indie author John Peragine shares his experience planning his latest book tour for his book Iowa Wine.
Agent Alert: Amaryah Orenstein of GO Literary
Literary agent alerts (this one with Amaryah Orenstein of GO Literary) are golden opportunities for new writers because each one is a literary agent who is likely building his or her client list.
Is Hybrid Publishing Right For You?
Are you a bit mystified with the book publishing process? Jennifer Scroggins, executive vice president of the hybrid press KiCam projects, explains what hybrid publishing can do for authors.
Fantasy Book Publishers Open to Submissions
Here are fantasy book publishers open to submissions from previous Market Spotlights on the Publishing Insights blog. This list will be updated regularly.