Author Offering Constructive Crit

Jessi Webb is offering her constructive criticism to all authors.  Check out her blog for details. 

Are you addicted to finding a literary agent?

I just found this post on Nina Badzin's blog.

Are you addicted to finding a literary agent?

I am a new reader of Nina's blog but this article struck a chord with me and I felt I had to share. I am a bit obsessive when it comes to my agent research - I have lists of agents not just for me, but for Jessi and David too. I have purchased the latest Writer's market and attacked it with post-its and highlighters, I have bookmarked dozens of agent's sites, stalked them on twitter and read every blog post they put out.  I have scoured Preditors and Editors and Absolute Write to get all the info I can on them.

So this article truly hit home with me. And I thought that it might for some of you as well.

Neil Gaiman: Advice to Authors

Sometimes, the best advice a success-driven, unpublished author can receive is from a successful, published author.  Neil Gaiman, the acclaimed author of American Gods and Coraline (among many others), offers advice to authors on the subjects of getting published, writing comics and editing.

Rachelle Gardner

Rachelle Gardner is another agent that seems to thrive on giving back to the publishing community. Her blog is absolutely filled with information and tidbits about the publishing industry but there is always a fantastic energy about it. You can tell from her posts that her blog is something she does because she enjoys helping others! So we absolutely had to include her on From Premise to Print. Her blog is one of the very first I check out every single day.

A couple days ago, she posted a blog about the editorial letter. She included a huge list of examples of what types of comments and what kinds of edits could be asked of an author before being published. It was an eye opener!

The Editorial Letter