Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Hey Dave - thanks for your story! Happy to hear about your success. I have just a couple questions, though. Sorry for the bullet points, but here they are: - Who did you self publish through? (sorry if I missed this) - You mentioned that you've given away about 30,000 books - were those digital copi...

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Hey - So I absolutely love anything and everything WWII related. With my bias in mind, I think you have a potentially really compelling story to be told. While writing book I, I'd recommend focusing on making it as personal and compelling (without being too depressing, as some returning-from-war boo...

This is my revised synopsis. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks! Acea and the Animal Kingdom “My name is Acea Bishop. I am William Bishop’s son. And I am a wizard.” After years of falling asleep to his mothers’ magical bedtime stories about the father he’d never known, twelve-year-old ACEA BISHOP ...

Hey Nathan - Sorry if this question has been asked already, though I didn't see it on any other post: Besides the invaluable help in editing or otherwise making connections to help get a prospective writer published, I'm wondering what your thought is on joining a writers' association (i.e. SCWBI, e...

***Please see below post for my most recent revision. As always, your thoughts are appreciated. Thanks - Kyle You guys totally helped me shorten my query and make it more interesting. Here's my synopsis, which I'm feeling is too long - maybe not, I don't know. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciat...

I agree with the above comments - way too many "ifs" in the hypo. Personally, if there's a taker on any of your books, just be thrilled! (I don't mean that negatively - most writers would love to have interest in any of their books.) However, I'd like to relate a story I heard from a well-...

Thanks for your input - glad to hear this as I've started sending this draft out to some agents. Any other thoughts from anyone else, though, and I'm all ears.

Besides the invaluable help in editing or otherwise making connections to help get a prospective writer published, I'm wondering what people's thoughts are in joining a writers' association (i.e. SCWBI, etc) just for the benefit of mentioning it in a query. Beneficial? It's obviously not going to be...

My prior queries gave more detail, specifically that he wakes up in a room with 5 doors labeled: safari, jungle, terrarium, aviary, and aquarium. After getting a handful of rejections, I decided to remove that much information to go with the imagery of it simply resembling a zoo instead. Any other t...

Hey - generally it looks good to me. But the one thing I've vague on is the princess - who she is, what's her involvement, why she becomes involved, what she's the princess of, etc. Not to say that all of these should be explained (they souldn't in a short query or synopsis) - but the word "pri...

Thanks for your input, I'm thinking you may be right. But if anyone else has any thoughts, I'm all ears. I've also posted my revised query in the queries thread for the MG fantasy novel Acea and the Animal Kingdom. - Kyle

After getting rejections with my prior query for my MG Fantasy novel ACEA AND THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, I have totally re-worked it. Please feel free to provide inout - it's very much appreciated! Thanks, Kyle Dear ________, A boy with a hidden power must race against the clock to end a spell cast over hi...

I apologize in advance if this topic has already received attention elsewhere on the forums. If it has, I'd appreciate being pointed to the thread (I couldn't find one.) I was recently lucky enough to have a well-published author who writes in my same genre read the first several chapters of my nove...

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