Like Chicken Little, a lot of people are running around shouting that the publishing world is going under. This allegedly inevitable transformation to digital is going to delete jobs, while journals and magazines that don’t keep up and reformat for iPad will go extinct. Literary journals are traditionally characterized as small and underfunded. Basically, they’reContinue reading “Choices: Do New Writers Have to Submit to Online Literary Journals?”
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How to Grab an Editor’s Attention: Bragging (Politely) in Your Query Letter–With Example
For those of you who are shy and don’t like bragging about your publishing credits for fear of being impolite, stop being shy! Literary journal editors and literary agents WANT to hear about that stuff! A query letter and a cover letter are like job interviews. Proving that you’re a qualified writer helps you–andContinue reading “How to Grab an Editor’s Attention: Bragging (Politely) in Your Query Letter–With Example”
Tips on How to Win Writing Contests
Since this blog is for the underdog, the yet-to-be-discovered, the unpublished or occasionally published writers, we really need to start talking about writing contests. While at this stage everything would be a “big break” in your writing career, winning a writing contest has a couple extra bonuses: Writing contests usually have a bit of moneyContinue reading “Tips on How to Win Writing Contests”
Elementary: You Don’t Need to be Sherlock Holmes to Figure Out What’s Wrong With Your Manuscript
You just need to be Extremely Patient. In the Ungodly Long-Term sense. I have this middle-grade historical fiction novel about Joan of Arc that I’ve been working on for what feels like forever. I researched for a year and a half. Towards the end of that research process, I simultaneously wrote the first draft inContinue reading “Elementary: You Don’t Need to be Sherlock Holmes to Figure Out What’s Wrong With Your Manuscript”
Hannah Karena Jones 