Laura Drake is back for the second segment of Fearless Pitching! If you missed the first post, click here. Before we get on to THE day, a bit of philosophy to remember when you look in the mirror that morning: If you don't get a request for a partial, The Gatekeepers are not rejecting YOU. […]

By Laura Drake You all know me (Ms. 413 Rejections) so I’ll spare you the story. Just know that I have pitched a LOT in my life, and I’m here, fresh from teaching a Pitching class, smack in the middle of conference season, to give you some tips for pitching that will make your pitch […]

by Orly Konig-Lopez After that headline a few of you are probably worried that my marble bag has a hole in it. You might not be wrong. But that's not the point of this post. Rejections. No one wants to get them, no one likes getting them. They sting. They make you triple guess your […]

by Steena Holmes In my last post, I talked about Street Teams and using my newsletter to connect with my readers. It raised a few questions about newsletters to which I replied “but that’s another blog.” The ladies at WITS took me up on that. So today we’re going to talk about … Newsletters. Some […]

by Darynda Jones Have you ever sat and listened to a panel of editors and agents go over their wish lists, the manuscripts they’d most like to see at that moment? And have you ever thought to yourself, “Hmmm, a space opera about a zombie captain who is commissioned to take an elemental princess across […]