Top Ten Mistakes
Top Ten things *Not* to do at a Writers Conference
1. Not have a ready blurb
2. Not know your market
3. Not have three copies of the most important things in your writer’s world in your go-bag (see below)
4. Not share your book blurb *because someone might steal your idea*
5. Tell an agent you have the, *Next Bestseller* to show him
6. Tell an agent you will make him rich
7. Chase an editor or agent into the bathroom
8. Sleep on the floor outside of an agent’s room to be the first person he sees in the morning
9. Ditto an editor’s room
10. Get drunk and throw up on an editor or agent
Yep, I've seen them all!
Three things to be carried in your go bag at all times: three copies of a one page synopsis, three copies of the first three chapters of your novel (up to 50 pages) and three cover letters, all ready to distribute, all in proper format. If you don’t know the proper format, then do some homework. There are plenty of places on the web that will tell you how and what.
Faith
1. Not have a ready blurb
2. Not know your market
3. Not have three copies of the most important things in your writer’s world in your go-bag (see below)
4. Not share your book blurb *because someone might steal your idea*
5. Tell an agent you have the, *Next Bestseller* to show him
6. Tell an agent you will make him rich
7. Chase an editor or agent into the bathroom
8. Sleep on the floor outside of an agent’s room to be the first person he sees in the morning
9. Ditto an editor’s room
10. Get drunk and throw up on an editor or agent
Yep, I've seen them all!
Three things to be carried in your go bag at all times: three copies of a one page synopsis, three copies of the first three chapters of your novel (up to 50 pages) and three cover letters, all ready to distribute, all in proper format. If you don’t know the proper format, then do some homework. There are plenty of places on the web that will tell you how and what.
Faith