Our guest blogger today is Denise Roessle, author of Second-Chance Mother.
As a first-time author in early 2012, my hopes were high and my expectations were reasonable. I had worked hard to build a following — via Facebook, my blog, and my website — so lots of friends, as well as strangers, were anticipating the release of Second-Chance Mother in both ebook and print versions. (more…)
Author John Quinn did his homework. He studied the elements of a query letter, then penned the query below. All it takes is one agent to like a query and request the proposal or manuscript, decide to represent and make a sale. In John’s case, that agent was the talented Claire Gerus, who proceeded to sell John’s book, Someone Like Me, to History Publishing. Note the hook used to begin the letter. It immediately draws you in and keeps you reading.
Dear Ms. Gerus:
I have a secret I want to share with you, a secret that only a few people in the entire world know…so far. I was born with cerebral palsy and I joined the United States Navy. I’ve only had to keep that secret for my entire twenty-year career as a sailor. (more…)
I finished reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky just under the wire. The movie opened on four screens a week ago, and will soon descend on more. If I see the movie first, I’m less inclined to read the book, and since Perks is one of those books that leaves permanent impressions on each of your senses, it would have been sad to have neglected the read. Now I’m holding my breath that the movie stays true to the book. (more…)