Category Archives: articles
Ludlow vs. Holic
Lavinia Ludlow and Nathan Holic in conversation at Curbside Splendor, Part I and Part II.
Press
Casperian Books got a nice write-up from Marc Schuster on the Three Guys One Book blog.
Lots of activity!
Terence Hawkins has guest blogs up at historical-fiction.com, Historical Boys, and Writerly So, an extract of The Rage of Achilles at The Historical Novel Review, and a review of The Rage of Achilles at 300spartanswarriors.com‘s blog. Sybil Baker has an … Continue reading
Links
Curt Smith has a guest blog titled On Trances and Other Gifts up at Flash Fiction.net. And Paul G Bens and Kelland keep on making the rounds, most recently with a very flattering review at Edge, an interview at Small … Continue reading
On Reading
A couple of years ago on a flight from Toronto to London, I was sitting next to an acquisitions editor for a very large publisher, who struck up a conversation with me over the book I was reading at the … Continue reading
You’ve got to be kidding me, US Postal Service!
Today, we had two international shipments returned to us, because the US Postal Service, in its infinite wisdom (and presumably in an effort to increase revenues) has decided that not only should the 4-pound limit for international priority mail shipments … Continue reading
Marketing Advice from Curt Smith
Since I often refer authors asking for marketing advice to Curt Smith, I asked Curt to write a short blog post detailing his marketing approach. Here it is: Curt Smith on Marketing So you’ve gotten your first manuscript accepted? Congratulations. … Continue reading
Making Books
There are some interesting publishing statistics over at Para Publishing for anyone interested. But that’s not really what I want to post about today. I want to post about lead time. My daytime job involves lead times of about one … Continue reading
Constance Speaks!
Was that dramatic enough? Constance, copywriter par excellence, will be contributing an occasional column here, and this is her introduction: Copywriting Lily has asked me to address potential authors regarding what I am reading for when I write a blurb. … Continue reading
Winning Queries, Take Two
After very much enjoying the writing sample submitted together with this query letter, we requested the entire manuscript to review and placed it in our work queue. When we followed up a few weeks later with a status update, we … Continue reading
Winning Queries, Take One
We’re getting a lot of queries at the moment, and the most important rule about querying anyone obviously is to follow that party’s submission guidelines/requirements, but I also figure it might be helpful for the authors out there to see … Continue reading