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- June 23rd, 2014, 6:58 pm
- Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
- Topic: Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog
- Replies: 720
- Views: 322911
Re: Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog
Title: Indifferent City Genre: Historical Cocking his head, LAPD officer Billy Duquesne considered the man handcuffed to the chair in front of him. With his long wrinkled neck, his mouth flapping and squawking, the Chicago accountant, Konrad ‛Cueball’ Drescher, looked like a scrawny bird wearing w...
- July 6th, 2012, 8:58 pm
- Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
- Topic: Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog
- Replies: 720
- Views: 322911
Re: Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog
TITLE: BILLY D GENRE: HISTORICAL 250 Nobody expected a riot that day. Reverend “Fighting Bob” Shuler intended to change that. From KGEF, his personal radio station, he poured accelerant on the fire he'd kindled the day before from his pulpit on Flower Street. The message was simple. The corrupt sou...
- November 4th, 2010, 1:10 am
- Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
- Topic: Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog
- Replies: 720
- Views: 322911
Re: Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog
Title: Shadows and Smoke Genre: Noir Historical Los Angeles, March 1929 The day I killed my last Hun was both the best and the worst day of my life. It was the day I met Maddy. For weeks Captain Jeffers, my boss, along with his boss, Donald E. Crawford and the half of city hall Crawford had in his p...
- February 23rd, 2010, 8:45 pm
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: Do agents really represent the author or the book?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1567
Do agents really represent the author or the book?
I keep hearing so many agents say they want to represent the author and their career, not just a single book. If this is so, why then do agents say they have to absolutely love a book in order to take it on? What if they love the book I'm pitching right now, and it sells, am I then supposed to produ...
- January 12th, 2010, 11:52 pm
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: Do you mention good reviews in a query?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1293
Re: Do you mention good reviews in a query?
No, but you mention the books you have published and if they're getting good responses and reviews does that mean anything to an agent? I'm not querying a published book.
- January 11th, 2010, 11:26 am
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: Do you mention good reviews in a query?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1293
Do you mention good reviews in a query?
What's the consensus on quoting good reviews in a query letter? Is it only a good idea if they're from big review sites like Kirkus? What if you get multiple rave reviews?
- January 6th, 2010, 12:03 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Post Your Favourites
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8641
Re: Post Your Favourites
I'm reading three great books -- Jeffrey Deaver's Roadside Crosses, Joseph Wambaugh's Hollywood Moon and James Ellroy's Bloods a Rover. I just finished Jonathan Kellerman's Evidence. My favorite kind, good dark mystery/thrillers.
- January 5th, 2010, 11:39 pm
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: Requests for Exclusives
- Replies: 2
- Views: 988
Requests for Exclusives
I searched the archives and can't find anywhere this has been covered, though I'm sure it's been mentioned before. How do you handle it when you have a few queries out, some for a few months without a word, and you come across an agent you'd really like to query but they insist on an exclusive? One,...
- December 28th, 2009, 6:58 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Happy Holidays
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1102
Happy Holidays
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and you're looking forward to the new year. May it be healthy and productive and get you that book contract, that agent and that nice royalty check. Stay healthy and stay safe.
- December 10th, 2009, 10:26 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Do you write the same genre you read?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 15388
Re: Do you write the same genre you read?
Yes, I do. I love police procedurals and that's what I write, for the most part. I do write the occasional romance, something I read only occasionally. I do read more than those kinds of books, but they are my favorite. I used to write Science Fiction and for years that's pretty much all I read. I'v...
- December 9th, 2009, 9:46 am
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: Mentioning other authors
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1378
Mentioning other authors
If you know an agent represents an author whose work is similar to yours (but not so close as to be in direct competition) do you mention this in the query or not? Our works are similar in genre, but quite different in content. But is it good or bad to mention it or will it not make the slightest di...
- December 9th, 2009, 9:10 am
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: Your own website?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6801
Re: Your own website?
I set up a web site long before I was published. If it's something you can do on your own, why not? I built my own and over the years it's moved from being a personal site with more stuff about me, to a business oriented site where I list all my books, links to things of writing interest, favorite a...
- December 8th, 2009, 11:50 pm
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: Etiquette when an agent says they're closed to submissions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1896
Etiquette when an agent says they're closed to submissions
What would you recommend if an agent you think would be perfect for your novel says they are closed to unsolicited submissions? Is it okay to send a simple query anyway? Is this ever effective or is it counter productive?
- December 8th, 2009, 12:46 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query Help needed
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4847
Re: Query Help needed
I've done a lot of research on gangs, plus I have some contacts in the LAPDs gang unit and ex-cops as well. I've also studied some memoirs written or ghost written by gang members so I think I have a good understanding of them. Most of the books I've published are police procedurals so I pride mysel...
- December 8th, 2009, 8:53 am
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query Help needed
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4847
Re: Query Help needed
I really appreciate all the great suggestions you're giving me. I think I have a better idea of how this needs to read. I always knew it might be a difficult sell given the subject matter, but I'm trying to tailor it -- I've left my dream agents to the end of my querying process. I wanted to get it ...