This is something I’m seeing more and more - the rule of 12. In the last week, I’ve seen words to this effect on several websites, and once in a book I picked up at the library, and now I’m going to put them here.
Serious writers will have several submissions out at all times. [...]

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To put it simply…for me, to be e-published or to have a book self-published is the same as not being published at all. Why? Because anyone can produce an e-book, anyone can go down the POD or vanity press road. Anyone.

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Following a recent rejection I received on behalf of the 2004 Anthology stories, it’s time to hit the query stage again. However, I want to revise the query letter I was using so I’ve been looking around for some hints on letter writing.
Most of the following is common sense, but I’m going to make [...]

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A friend gave me this link to Robin Friedman’s Interviews with Editors. It looks like a great resource for writers of children’s books.

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Do people read the rules when they join an online community? I don’t think so because if they did I wouldn’t have to waste my time explaining why I’ve just denied their submission to join a private forum the day after they join the message board (which I no longer do because if they [...]

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I remember my first rejection letter. It was quite a number of years ago now, when my boys were young. I went and hid in the bedroom to open the “all important” parcel.
Trembling, I carefully opened the envelope and pulled out my manuscript. Without reading a word, I already knew what was [...]

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I won’t go into details about how this came about but yesterday I chatted with an agent about writing, what is expected in the industry and what an unpublished author should be aware of.
The agent was Brian Cook, a well known figure in the Australian publishing world.
Word count has always been an issue for me [...]

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StoryPilot’s Science Fiction & Fantasy Market Search Engine looks like a great place to start looking for that perfect market for short stories and novels.
There can never be enough places to try, I say.

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I came across this site - Warnings and Cautions for Writers–Literary Agents - and thought the information found on the page should be known by all writers.
It reinforces the fact that an author should NEVER pay money up front.

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Writing the manuscript is the easy part. Getting noticed is the challenge!
A friend of mine received one too many rejections where it was obvious that her manuscript had not been read. This was after she did the right thing and queried the agent first and she was asked to send in the chapters. After the [...]

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