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Apr.23.2013 Nobody Quite Like Ourselves! Writers are tough sons-of-bitches. It’s hard enough to write a book. Then you have to wade into this street fight we call the publishing industry and start pitching your project. The tweed jacket crowd is gone, replaced by Darwinian corporate mergers, staff churn, the e-book earthquake, anti-trust...	Feb.20.2013 The Writing Day Today's writing time was fully devoted to query and synopsis writing. Like any writing or created material, no matter the form, there's a structure to understand. Fitting my work into that structure is the challenge. Words carry weight. Each must be pondered. It's about...
Sep.12.2012 In Submission, Waiting My new novel The Object has been submitted to literary agents, and in fact has already received its first two rejections. Once I reached two hundred, I stopped counting how many rejections piled up over the last fifteen years. With a failure rate above 99.5%, one could argue that I...	Aug.05.2012 The Plague of Non-responders There was a time, especially during the hard-mail submission days, when all you had to do was sit back and wait for an agent or editor response. It was almost guaranteed, especially if you provided return postage (SASE), and even in some cases, when you didn't but still received a polite reply...
Sep.17.2011 Agent Query Letter for comments A recently published author friend offered to refer a query letter to his agent. This is it. Any comments? From hedge fund maven, to living in his car, to Presidential contender, to a ride out of town on a Greyhound bus, to future Chili con Carne mogul, the life of Edison Conover has all...	Jul.09.2011 A Query Letter [Following is the content of my first agent query, going out this Monday] Matthew Hauser is nine years old when he and his older sister are taken by the authorities from their neglectful mother and placed in an orphanage run by a sadist. Matt is a sensitive, intelligent boy with an indomitable...
Aug.12.2010 No writing rules, would you take a risk? Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something - Thomas A. Edison Recently, I attended a LIVE Q & A with agent Mark McVeigh at www.writeoncon.com. The session got me thinking. Many participants asked questions around the rules and etiquette to submitting a query. One...	Dec.21.2009 Meeting Agents at Conferences Versus Query Letters Next month I will be pitching my second novel to an agent at a writer's conference here in Southern California. Since this is the novel I believe will be my breakthrough piece, it is the one I most want represented by a respectable agent. Personally, I feel that the direct interaction with an...
Jul.13.2009 Sample Query for Crystal Clear Motivation, a science fiction novel In my 23rd century 87,000 word science fiction novel Crystal Clear Motivation, crime and love must be reconciled when the accused criminal is the investigator’s ex-fiancé. In one horrifying moment, Earth/Luna shuttle co-pilot Zaci Lukman discovers that Commander Isaac Fredericks, whom she thought...