Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Hi Nathan, I am turning to you because I'm not sure who else to ask. I think I remember reading a post about this somewhere but I can't find it. How do you know which agent to pick? What if five respond positively? (I know, I know, an embarrassment of riches - is this normal??) I'm a little overwhel...

Dear Agent, When the galactic government sends Lieutenant Jana Darren to the deserted planet Earth on a mission to recover data from a crashed research expedition, the last thing she expects is to stumble on a terrorist organization hell bent on toppling the all-powerful authority. (I think this sen...

Dear Agent, I chose to submit my work to you because you are the agent for my favorite author, Jane Doe and you are totally awesome. I wouldn't start it this way - just go right into it. When seventeen year-old Kat finds out her (dying) Grandmother is dying and asking for her, she is forced to retur...

Eliora's life is shattered by a midnight phone call. Her photographer husband Micha was killed by a suicide bomber while out for a beer with some buddies after a photo shoot in Tel Aviv. Her best friend Liam from her student days in Ireland finds out via the book trading site they both belong to. St...

I have been asking and asking the publisher to renew the contract and he never did, he just kept acting as though it was still valid...

- Rena

I have a contract with a publisher dated July 26, 2007 and the terms of the contract was 12 months. I have been continuing with this publisher in the hope that he will eventually publish my cookbook. Now he has made a deal with a second publisher to help him with the graphic design and to try to get...

Yes and no. I write literary fiction, which I also read a lot of. But I LOVE a great paranormal fantasy novel here and there. And I love comic fantasy of whatever you'd call Christopher Moore or Terry Pratchett or Jasper Fforde. I would love to be able to write in either one of those genres but I do...

I know what my story is going to be about. Have snippets of the story in my head from all different sections, but do not have an outline. I feel like that would constrain me. One of the most wonderful thing about writing is when you sit down and decide exactly how a scene is going to go, and your ch...

I just finished reading Junot Diaz's Pulitzer Prize winner (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao) and I was talking to my husband about it as it relates to an article I read recently in Time Magazine called "Who's The Voice of this Generation" http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,91...

This is a mock-up pitch for a work in progress. Just wanted to get some thoughts/suggestions: Welcome to Pewee Valley, Tennessee, population 642. Three retired carnival workers--a clown, a fortuneteller, and a magician--friends since childhood, are celebrating Thanksgiving at different locations wh...

My first novel (I wouldn't say this is your first novel) , Defender of the Crown, tells the story of (this is already passive. Start with "No) Nicholas Benson, a teenage boy with magical talents so strong that he can’t restrain them. In fact, at the young age (obviously 13 is young) of thirteen...

I am not a professional but I am a writer and so I will offer you a critique that is just my opinion. In the very first sentence I am already confused: how can you be pulled off a cliff (who or what pulled her off?) and then plummet? wouldn't you fall? but then you wouldn't need to plummet too. And ...