Posted on November 24, 2008 by jia zhou

Have you ever read Ann Rice’s books. Her masterpiece was the vampire chronicles, interview with the vampire. About a vampire, names lesta, walk among the human beings, and tells his history on becoming a vampire. The story based on flashback memories of this vampire, back to his original being. His hometown, [...]

Posted on April 15, 2008 by Brooke Hart

For those who want some publishing etiquette to get their book into the big time, it’s time to start preparing. Getting a book published by a certain company is an extremely competitive market, with very little room for new books. Finding the right publisher, and setting the terms straight, will ensure that the [...]

Posted on September 18, 2006 by Marsha James

The Sobol Award is a new literary prize but only writers who are both unpublished and who do not have an agent can try to get it. The winner will recieve $100,000 and for second and third place, they will recieve $25,000 and $10,000 while 7 others will recieve $1,000 each.
Participants must enter through the [...]

Posted on August 23, 2006 by Nancy Callahan

The five largest US publishers (aka the “Big Five” — Random House, HarperCollins, Penguin Group, Simon & Schuster and Time Warner Trade Books) raked in $4.8 billion in revenue in 2004.
Random House, of course, was the country’s largest publisher last year, with U.S. sales of about $1.33 billion, roughly flat with 2003. HarperCollins and [...]

Posted on July 15, 2006 by Sarah White

I’ll have to admit I’m a bit of a grammar geek. I usually refer to myself as a word nerd. I’m a professional editor as well as being a writer, so words, and the correct usage of words, are my business.
Because I’m more than a little obsessed with all things wordy, I can’t resist reading [...]

Posted on April 27, 2006 by Nancy Callahan

It’s been a few weeks since I sent out my first queries to literary agents. So far, no bites — just a few rejections.
Luckily, I’m immune to rejections. (I’ve been a freelance writer for a few years, so I’m used to them.) Also, I’m thankful they’ve all been good non-form-letter rejections — each responded [...]

Posted on April 21, 2006 by Marsha James

When I say getting published takes time I don’t mean the process of creating the books or even writing the book. I am talking about just getting someone to accept the novel. After you have spent months and even years writing a book you can spend even more time shopping it around to different publishers.
That [...]

Posted on April 18, 2006 by Marsha James

A large majority of books needs to be illustrated, be it just the front cover, children’s books or cook books. Even if  your doing self-publishing, if you can’t draw a stick figure then you need to find someone who can illustrate your novel. Here are a few places that you can begin at.

Illustration Web
RABZ Illustration [...]

Posted on April 15, 2006 by Nancy Callahan

This morning, I sent out my first batch of agent queries.
They were all e-queries, thankfully, so there was no printing, paper-folding, or envelope-licking involved — just cutting, pasting, and sending. This was refreshing, as the process of finding potential agents and crafting a personalized query for each had been pretty arduous.
First, I’d checked sites [...]

Posted on April 07, 2006 by Marsha James

The lawsuit is over and Judge Peter Smith ruled in Dan Brown’s favor saying:
“It would be quite wrong if fictional writers were to have their writings pored over in the way DVC (`Da Vinci Code’) has been pored over in this case by authors of pretend historical books to make an allegation of infringement of [...]