Nathan Bransford - The Forums

When a school field trip goes awry, feisty seventeen-year-old Kat and four of her classmates find themselves thrust into a world where the myths and legends of Earth are realized. Somewhat confused with this sentence, how does the trip go awry? How do they get there? Their only hope of surviving thi...

Wow. Thank you to all of the people that have posted and helped improve my query letter. I just wanted to update and say that I received a response for the first 30 pages today with your assistance. First time it has ever happened to me and it feels really good, even though I know it is only a baby ...

Just wanted to simply say, I love this post.

Your story has my attention, it is extremely creative and interesting. I have a few questions that I think might want to be answered in the query. What are the ALO's like? I know that this was touched upon in previous posts but I am dying to know. How did the parents betray her? Why does she need th...

First off let me say that the advice that I have received thus far has been extremely helpful. At this point I am embarrassed that I even sent some of my original queries out to agents. I can see why Nathan uses the stick figure banging his head against the desk cartoon, this is frustrating. I have ...

Here is an attempt at a rewrite. Thank you for all of your advice. I know that this still isn't right but I am hoping it is somewhat better. It amazes me that the MS seems easier to write then the query. Tristan Parker walked into the park of his new town on a seemingly ordinary day. Unfortunately a...

Hello everyone, This is my first attempt at getting help with a query. So far I have been failing and I realize that I am doing something wrong, please help. Thank you. I am submitting to you because middle grade fiction is a genre that you represent and I hope that this will fit what you are seekin...

Hello Everyone, My name is Michael and as most of you are I am an aspiring writer. I have been working since the beginning of this year on several stories and with the help of this blog and several others out there I have been trying to become published. I write under the name M.A. Leslie because my...

By M.A. Leslie As a writer I find that I am a structured outliner like a builder with an architect’s plans I glide through the story that I have pre-told with roman numerals. I require the ideas to be finished and together before I even start the manuscript otherwise I often times find myself not fi...