Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Same general genre? Really? I like meeting my own kind. :) What is it that you write? I agree with that about needing humor in these times. The goal here is really just to make people laugh and if I can make money from doing it? Red letter day. Hopefully there are people out there like me that laugh...

10 Grammar Fail points for me. I will definitely be giving all of this a lot of thought, ingesting lethal amounts of caffeine, and possibly querying you some time in the future. I'll try not to channel the apex predator of language; the elusive and volatile Snark. -Heather If only 50 fans of my Face...

Thanks for your time and the information, Nathan. It's awesome that you're helping us out this way. I've been tempted to take bits of the stories and weave them into a novel, but I'm not sure how much that would hurt my chances of publishing the collection. I'm guess that "rag mags" aren't...

Nathan, I've been having some difficulty in tracking down word counts and such for collections of non-linear essays (Mira's fancy term for short stories). The best I've been able to find is that they're acceptable in the 40,000 - 70,000 range. I'm guessing that this could technically be classified a...

Mira, That's the best advice I've received thus far. (Thus far? Really?) Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions, I truly appreciate it. For whatever reason, David Sedaris completely slipped my mind. I've enjoyed several of his essays but I will have to say that I am absolutely no David Se...

There are countless sources of information for humorous fiction queries and there are slightly less for non-fiction queries. There are no blasted sources of information for non-fiction humor/short stories. (Short stories, she says? Off with her head!) This genre has a market, these books are selling...