Nathan Bransford - The Forums

When you e-mail a query, you usually include the first chapter or first three chapters in the body of the e-mail. Because your e-mail program will generally not recognize formatting, such as a Word header (which is where I’ve put my page numbers) or inserted page numbers, the sample chapter pages wi...

Dear Nathan, I have a question regarding queries and the query advice one finds on the internet. I’m wondering if there exists a difference between a query letter for genre fiction and a query letter for “literary” fiction. I ask because nearly all query letter advice I read online seems geared towa...

Dear Nathan, A question regarding completed MS copy-editing: I have completed a few drafts of my novel and advanced from macro-editing to line-editing. A second set of eyes (with experience and credentials) has done the same. Yet I still find errors, nearly all of which are simple copy-editing mista...