Guest Post by Mark Gottlieb, literary agent at Trident Media Group You have written a book and decided to give it a genre label, but what to call it? The question is a lot more important than it may seem… Certain genres perform much better in the marketplace than other genres. That means if you […]
Guest post by Mark Gottlieb So you are a hopeful writer looking to become a published author and your novel is getting rejected right and left, but maybe the problem isn’t the plot or characters or ideas. Maybe you’re just submitting at the wrong time. Is there a wrong and right time to submit? Yes. […]
In preparation for this post, I read query letters until my brain went numb. I looked for the letters marked “successful” — those that garnered agent’s attention. After days of reading, certain constants emerged. A successful query often includes a combo of: A strong voice Suspense Delightful characters References (to known authors or one’s own […]
The query letter has one job–to get the agent (or the publisher, if you’re going that route) to read the pages you sent. This means it doesn’t necessarily have to be brilliant, it just has to work. How to write a query letter that works? There are eight parts of a query letter: hook pitch […]
