What a Ghostwriter Does, and Why

This is a guest post by Andrew Crofts. There are several questions which regularly follow the conversational revelation that I am a ghost writer. ‘Why on earth do you want to do that?’ is usually the first puzzled response. ‘Don’t you resent someone el …

Tighter Market, Tighter Message

This is a guest post by Peter Bowerman, author of The Well-Fed Writer. Gloom. Doom. Dark prognostications. Gathering clouds. The end of prosperity as we know it. Wooooo. You can’t pick up a newspaper or flip on the news these days without hearing the l …

Are You Sure Your Query Is Ready?

One magazine. Hundreds of writers. Thousands of queries. One editor. One desktop … and a trashcan that appears to be incredibly, almost unimaginably deep. Where exactly will your submission go? It has all the makings of an editor’s nightmare. Stacks …

Writing in Rhyme

This is a guest post by Laura Backes, Publisher, Children’s Book Insider, the Newsletter for Children’s Writers. © Copyright 2001, Children’s Book Insider, LLC Dr. Seuss did it, and in the process changed the face of the publishing industry and became …