In a recent post on pitching editors, a reader asked, “How do you ask editors what they want?” Anyone who’s been pitching for more than ten minutes knows this question is more complicated than it looks because you can’t just send a random editor a letter saying, “Tell me what you want and I’ll pitch…
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How to: Solve an editor’s problem
Yesterday I was talking about how “not finding your thing” can make it harder to achieve success as a writer. Today I’m going to talk a bit about another problem (related to the first) that some writers have that holds them back: They focus on what they want, not what the editor or market…
Behind the Scenes: Pitching Agents
A week or two ago, agent Nathan Bransford did a “Be an Agent for a Day” contest where he challenged his blog readers to read 50 queries (more or less what an agent might see in his/her inbox on any given day), and pick 5 they felt had potential and would, if they were agents,…