Avoiding rejection from literary agents can be challenging, literary agent and book development consultant Claire Gerus explains. This is due to the overwhelming amount of queries that agents receive every week. But building strong connections can increase...

Just like actors going to audition after audition, trying to land just one role, authors send query letter after query letter, trying to find agent representation and get a traditional publishing deal. Author Annie Sullivan says she wishes her early...

Books don't sell themselves, says author Carolyn Howard-Johnson, who shares marketing strategies for new writers. What's needed: a good query letter that reveals something about you, the author, whether you've been published or not. Describe what you...

Like most writers, author Madeline Sharples has experienced her share of rejection and challenges throughout her publishing journey. Getting your manuscript reviewed and accepted by traditional publishers is difficult, but with perseverance and hard...

Books don't sell themselves, says author Carolyn Howard-Johnson, who shares marketing strategies for new writers. What's needed: a good query letter that reveals something about you, the author, whether you've been published or not. Describe what you...

Like most writers, author Madeline Sharples has experienced her share of rejection and challenges throughout her publishing journey. Getting your manuscript reviewed and accepted by traditional publishers is difficult, but with perseverance and hard...

Singapore Writers' Group founder and critically acclaimed author Alice Clark-Platts experienced the rejection that many writers face when pursuing a traditional publishing path. It took perseverance and time for her to get an agent, along with a certain...

Singapore Writers' Group founder and critically acclaimed author Alice Clark-Platts experienced the rejection that many writers face when pursuing a traditional publishing path. It took perseverance and time for her to get an agent, along with a certain...

Writing amazing content is only a step toward being published. Actually submitting your work to a journal, publisher, or agent tends to result in a myriad of roadblocks. Submitting query letters is difficult work that requires trial and error and knowledge...

If you’re self-publishing a book, author and film post-production supervisor Sheryl Benko advocates for getting your book into bookstores. For her, seeing her novel The Last of Will on shelves legitimized the whole experience. Benko advises authors to...