By Katriena Knights Nobody wants one, but everybody needs one. Maybe it sounds like a riddle Bilbo Baggins should have tossed Gollum’s way, but it’s really just a fact of the publishing business. Everybody needs an editor. Even the editors. I’ve worked as an editor for almost ten years, in addition to writing my own…
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The winner of a copy of The Last Heir by Chuck Greaves
Congratulations to Liz Burns Who will receive a copy of The Last Heir by Chuck Greaves
When It’s Time to Part With Your Agent … by Chuck Greaves
Signing with a literary agent is an early career milestone for many authors. Finding the right agent is, I submit, essential to an author’s long-term success and happiness. Having chosen both badly and well in my brief writing career, I thought I’d share both experiences, as a kind of authorial teaching moment. When I finished…
How to find all those Colorado Gold agent/editor/speaker interviews
Our regular blog contributors and guests have been busy interviewing the agents, editors, and speakers who will attend the Colorado Gold Conference in Westminster September 5-7. We’re trying to make it as easy as possible for you to find and read those interviews. On the day they post, we put the link on the Rocky…
Look Who is Coming to Colorado Gold: A Conversation with Agent Sue Brower
“One of my favorite quotes about writing comes from John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction: “…fiction does its work by creating a dream in the reader’s mind.” I want to be so engrossed in the story that I am disoriented when I close the book. I do not acquire based solely on genre because publisher and consumer trends change so quickly. But give me a well written book and I think I can pitch it anywhere, anytime.”