My super-cool agent, Nathan Bransford has redisgned his blog which is now even more full of win. Also, he's added discussion forums! Given the number of bloggers who regularly visit, I foresee this forum becoming a great place to find info, network with other writerly folk, and get questions of a writing and publishing nature answered. Given I'm ( Read more... )

I'm pondering the development of a new blog. This will in part be for my novel when it gets published. So, on the one hand, it will be something of an author blog with all of the usual author things. However, I want to do something more with this, something that will draw in readers and writer types for reasons beyond my written words. Because my ( Read more... )

Poking around blogs today, and read one which chatted with a YA/MG agent books and what pubs were looking for these days, and fantasy was mentioned, as in too many LoTR wannabes. I've been querying here and there over the past two years with my epic fantasy, with two sub-20 main characters in it, and it never occurred to me to market it as YA. Yes ( Read more... )