June 23rd, 2021

Confessions of a Naïve Author

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Indie Publishing | John Peragine | Writer's Life

When you embark on the journey to go a non-traditional route of publishing, including self-publishing, hybrid publishing, or small/medium-sized publishers, you take on a lot.

We concentrate so much on the craft that when it comes to handing it over to someone else, we often want to crawl back to the comfortable place and begin the creation process again.… Read the post

January 9th, 2013

WITS Throwdown: Query Strategy-Narrow Focus vs Scattergun?

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Critique Groups | Publishing

by Fae Rowen

Well, Laura Drake, AKA The Queen of Querying, finally helped me into the big scary world of querying. With both feet. On the first Sunday in December she helped me send out eleven queries.

Those of you who love to query will think , "Eleven queries?… Read the post

June 13th, 2012

A Few of Our Current Favorite Links

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Inspiration | Miscellaneous | Writing Craft

It's been quite awhile since we've shared what we're following here at Writers in the Storm, so we decided to give you the pre-summer list of places we've been hanging out lately. Maybe we'll see you at one of them!

From Jenny Hansen: In my humble opinion, Gene Lempp does the best writing mash-ups out there every Saturday – here’s his latest.… Read the post