Nathan Bransford - The Forums

That would be so awesome Ghost. It'd really help us know if we suck or are just not finding interested agents.

I suppose I've always written to entertain, but that's because everything I do is to entertain. Whether I'm standing in line at the grocery store or in a business meeting at work, I find humor in the moment and joke around with people. I love to make people laugh, and almost love it as much when I m...

My earliest memory of vampires being sexy and seductive was the movie "Love at First Bite." It was silly and fun, but Dracula was irresistable. Also some movies from the 80s like "Once Bitten" and "Fright Night" plus Elvira, Mistress of the Dark is supposed to be vamp-i...

Mine are depressing. Genre Urban Fantasy queries sent: 41 queries replied to: 13 rejections: 13 no response: 28 requests for partial: nada requests for manuscript: nada It could be the word count. It could be the genre. It could be the complicated plot. Beats me. No rejections have been personalized.

W00000000000000000000000000000T!!!!!!!

Good luck, and try not to pass out. I'll try to stimey my jealousy and still speak to you.

I co-author with a friend (on stuff we've no plans of publishing) who lives in RI and I'm in TX. We discuss an idea in IM, then use gmail to go back and forth: her charrie, my charrie, the scene, etc. Then, when the scene is done, I take her tags and my tags and put them into Microsoft Word and edit...

It could be said that my loathing of Twilight is just as unbalanced as the 'hero' of the story. My oldest daughter brought home Twilight when she was 14. She loved it. Raved about it. Begged me to read it. I wasn't interested in the slightest, but I thought it could be a mother/daughter bonding thin...

As others have said, it depends on the writer and the readers. For my latest one, I had a group of seven people: three writer friends, three avid readers of my genre that were also friends, and one 13 year old boy who had never met me who is the son of a supervisor at my job. I got my feedback from ...

lol RLS. Yeah, I sent to her. She totally booted me after three days. Le sigh. No one wants my crazy book.

Well, I'm a writer AND a reader, as I'm sure most of us are. For every book I write, I've read scores more. Maybe we'll all just sit at our computers and write novels for each other. :-)

Heya, Craig. I'm Christi (obviously) and hail from Texas. As you can see by my number of comments, I normally hover around the forums, but the last week I've been trying to stay away a lot to get my manuscript all shiny and help another author with their novel. This place can get very distracting. W...

Amarillo is about six hours from me, depending on how much I speed.

Watership Down and Dune in the same thread. I'm in good company. Two of my all time favorite books. There's no way I could decide on a favorite part (and two have already been mentioned in this thread), but I will share something that happens to me quite randomly. Whenever my mind starts to wander,...

Okay, I can't choose. They're all pretty good. Here's mine:

"My life did not begin until I had experienced death."

I was so confused. I was like 'huh? where's Lucinda?' until my tired brain went 'oh, ANOTHER story.'