I was sitting here taking a quick break from the WIP, and I was trying to come up with a blog post for the day. Unfortunately, nothing came to mind other than today’s experiences with the world of agents and writing.
First, nudging. To do or not to do? I think this depends on the agent. [...]

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Good news! Edits are done! I’m going through the copy one more time and polishing things up, but I’ve at least gone through the entire thing now. Whew. And these edits are making it a lot better. Strengthening relationships, delving into greater detail about backgrounds and surroundings and smoothing out major plot points and transitions.
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Whew, I just spent hours upon hours doing some agent research. I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed and frazzled. There are so many agents and so much information out there that it takes a lot of time and patience to wade through it all. But it’s worth it to find the gems that you feel would [...]

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With less than a quarter of the WIP left to write, I’ve been doing a little agent research. I’m using several online tools and putting the agents I find interesting into an Excel spreadsheet. When I’m ready to start querying (and I’ve already worked on the query letter), I’ll have all my info ready. Then, [...]

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The other day, I was reading Agent Nathan Bransford’s blog and his post about Query Letter Mad Libs. He developed his own mad lib for writing query letters. He posts it here and suggests testing it out to see if you can come up with a decent query letter for your novel with this formula. [...]

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