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Apparently Publishers Marketplace is the bee-all-and-end-all of the US market, but it costs, and I already pay for Querytracker (which I love because the paid version offers stats which helps me who to query and who might respond - I can manage...

So worth it, and it's affordable. Once a year subscription for under $50. Hell, yeah! It took me a few of my books to really get the hang of how I can use it the way I want, but that's because I didn't spend time to learn up front. I just picked...

When submitting and almost inevitably receiving rejections, it is important to remember there are many reasons for rejection, and also, they haven't a scooby who you are so they are rejecting the submission, not you. Reasons: a) You didn't...

Finding agents UK: Writers and Artists Yearbook (or children-specific one), the acknowledgements at the end of books you love (will lead you to UK and US agents), word of mouth (ask whenever you get the chance), follow a target agent on social...

a) Your covering letter is a Sell not a Tell. You don't have to say anything about the ending other than this can be a standalone or the first of a trilogy, and that you have a working synopsis/ you have plotted/drafted the rest of the trilogy...

For writers more than readers sums it up perfectly. And everyone on there is making reels for you tube instagram -everything else, working their ass off reaching readers. Personally I think you would be better off looking at something like...

It's an interesting idea that is synchronistic with many of Pete's. Have you discussed this with him? How is this moneticised for you? You say join for free but as a consumer I suppose I am suspicious of any such claim. As they saying goes if you...

That's good. So I had a closer look. But I can't find any Masthead. I would never send my writing anywhere that didn't list the names and credentials of the editors. Your blog posts say they are by the Wordfyle Team. I suppose that must be you...

I was advised to send mine to some German agents who operate in English. Maybe I will someday. But first I am paying to have a developmental and then line edit. This coming March. Such mixed feelings. Though I am thinking of a form of...

No I think of you for erotic stories Seldayne. And I thought I remembered one about blues and music and spice? Speculative doesnt mean just soft Sci Fi. It's anything you gotta use your imagination on. Agreed on Laura's homemade covers. I like...

I did write something for an erotic crime anthology (accepted but still awaiting contracts), but it's the only thing like that I've done. I don't read erotica or crime, so I feel like a total imposter. I write about outsider identity, feminism...

Dear God.... "PEN America welcomed a Mississippi court’s ruling ordering assistant principal Toby Price reinstated four years after he was fired for reading the humorous children’s book *I Need a New Butt!* to a class. The advocacy group said...

I was advised to send mine to some German agents who operate in English. Maybe I will someday. But first I am paying to have a developmental and then line edit. This coming March. Such mixed feelings. Though I am thinking of a form of...

@Sarit - good for you! Go for it. Fully support that. I am going to query for a while. I just want to try. I don't feel like I'm begging. I feel like I'm looking for the right fit. I may change my mind later and self-pub. It's fantastic that...