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Want to see how your editing approach compares to mine? Below is the page up for critique on the blog on Tuesday, June 13th. Feel free to chime in with comments, create your own redline (please note the "font colour" button above the posting box, which looks like a drop of ink), and otherwise offer ...

Hi fuzzy, feel free to reach out to me and I can connect you. nathan@nathanbransford.com

Want to see how your editing approach compares to mine? Below is the query up for critique on the blog tomorrow, June 6th. Feel free to chime in with comments, create your own redline (please note the "font colour" button above the posting box, which looks like a drop of ink), and otherwise offer fe...

Want to see how your editing approach compares to mine? Below is the page up for critique on the blog on Tuesday, May 30th. Feel free to chime in with comments, create your own redline (please note the "font colour" button above the posting box, which looks like a drop of ink), and otherwise offer f...

Yeah, I hear you -- I try to reassure myself that writing is one of the most important things we can do right now (here's my post on that), but it can feel insignificant relative to the moment.

I recently surveyed my blog readers, and one of the things a lot of people said was to stop talking about politics. But there were also quite a few people who said you can't NOT talk about politics. I've seen so many authors complain about how distracting the political situation is right now and how...

I've seen a few different waves of online activity over the past ten years. At first there was a huge upswell in blogs -- everyone had a blog! Then people moved over to Facebook and Twitter. Now... where is everyone? Aside from politics Twitter, which seems super-active, where is everyone spending t...

Want to see how your editing approach compares to mine? Below is the query up for critique on the blog tomorrow, May 23rd. Feel free to chime in with comments, create your own redline (please note the "font colour" button above the posting box, which looks like a drop of ink), and otherwise offer fe...

Want to see how your editing approach compares to mine? Below is the page up for critique on the blog on Tuesday, May 16th. Feel free to chime in with comments, create your own redline (please note the "font colour" button above the posting box, which looks like a drop of ink), and otherwise offer f...

since i did a hundred books and a hundred movies, i felt the need to do a hundred songs, too. https://goo.gl/TQR6hN. i was scraping to find books, by the way; the movies list was a LOT easier. this one was a monumental pain in the ass; it took all day, and i'd to eliminate a LOT of REALLY good jams...

I would recommend against it - the reason to use comp titles for a novel isn't so much to prove there's a market for the book but to kind of place the concept in the agent's head in a smooth way. Since the agent isn't going to be particularly familiar with the book that just sold, I'm not sure it's ...

I'm in need of a playlist update.

What have you been listening to lately that you really like? Any new music discoveries?

Jessica Faust's post today is relevant to this topic: http://bookendsliterary.com/2017/05/08/ ... tor-pitch/

Want to see how your editing approach compares to mine? Below is the query up for critique on the blog on Tuesday, May 9th. Feel free to chime in with comments, create your own redline (please note the "font colour" button above the posting box, which looks like a drop of ink), and otherwise offer f...

I think the most important thing is to try not to force it. Being an agent at a conference is kind of like being a piece of cheese at a mouse convention, and agents tend to kind of have their guard up a tad. Just be natural, be yourself, let your pitch stand for itself, and trust that at the end of ...