Patience is a Virtue
I have a question for you. I resubmitted a manuscript with revisions at the request of a large LDS publishing company. They’ve been in possession of it for eight weeks now and I haven’t heard from...
View ArticleBad Advice
What is the worst advice you’ve seen someone (like from another blog or a writer’s book) give a writer? The absolute worst advice I’ve seen is recommending that you NOT follow the publisher’s...
View ArticleVampires and Werewolves and Demons, Oh My!
I have a vampire novel I’d like to submit nationally. Does it have the proverbial snowball’s chance at being accepted? Or is that trend totally dead. From a reader’s viewpoint, that trend is still...
View ArticleIt’s Not You, It’s Me
Okay, so yesterday’s late night post wasn’t a real post. But it was all I could manage because I was working on those electronic files all day. So today, you’ll get two posts. When should a writer...
View ArticleFirst Three means FIRST THREE!
This may be a really stupid question, but when a publisher or agent asks for three chapters, do they mean the first three chapters? Or three random chapters? If my book has a prologue, is that...
View ArticleA Memoir is Non-Fiction
Is a memoir fiction, since it’s written like a story? Or non-fiction, since it’s based on true events? Do I have to write the whole thing before submitting? Or do I write some samples and an outline...
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TIPS FROM THE SLUSH PILE by Sara Megibow
Sara Megibow is an Associate Literary Agent with the Nelson Literary Agency. She writes a regular article in Kristen Nelson’s monthly newsletter. If you don’t get this newsletter, you should. You can...
View ArticleLDS Agents?
I just found your blog and am just thrilled! I’m about to start the whole query (what I hear is a nightmare) challenge, and as I am getting all my ducks in a row I have to wonder…are there LDS agents...
View ArticleSubjectivity and Fairness
Having concluded the 2010 Best Cover Contest, I want to talk a little bit about subjectivity and fairness. A few comments expressed disappointment that certain covers had been selected and others...
View ArticleI’m Really Not Sure How to Answer This…
I got this email in April: I found your blog on bookcovers and I’m submitting a book this week to Deseret Books and am now completing the second book of the trilogy. There are no LDS perspective book...
View ArticleLooking for an LDS Publisher with National Marketing
Hi, I’m a fiction writer. I want to query one or more of the LDS publishers, but I don’t know which ones are the largest and with which one I would have the best chance of getting into the national...
View ArticleCommon Reasons for Rejections
Hello, [my trilogy] was just turned down by deseret publishing on my first book of this project. I’m 75% done with the second book and will then immediately complete the third of the trilogy. There has...
View ArticleChildren’s Picture Books
Thanks for taking the time to write your blog. I’m just getting my feet wet in the publishing world, and you have given me a place to start. I have written a children’s picture book. I’ve been...
View ArticlePublishing a Poem
Good Morning, My name is [Bob]. I wrote a poem called, “[Bob's [Poem]” . The poem was electronically filed online to the US Copyright Office in Washington, DC … where I paid $35. Once it was copyright...
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