Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Hello Vernalire. I must admit I'm a bit confused by your query. I know you cannot answer all questions in a query, but I do wonder why it might fall to Ameir to save billions of people. Why is he so significant? I've slightly edited your query below. Ignore if you do not find it helpful. Is it bad t...

This query clearly needs rhetorical questions, detailed descriptions of the weather, and a passive voice. And why am I suddenly hungry for tinned meat?

JTS

A comment I made an hour ago using my Blogger ID (John T. Shea) re Nathan's moving to NYC has yet to show up.

You've provoked an interesting discussion, Taylormillgirl. I partly agree with all posters and commend their helpful advice. Your agent seems to mean direct author-to-reader marketing, as distinct from marketing to publishers, which is definitely your agent's job, and marketing to bookstores, which ...

65 Impala convertible vs truck? Good question, Watcher. What about cutting the roof off an El Camino? Oh wait...you're asking about writers' conferences. I dunno. I've never been to one. Yet.

Sommer, send boils and locusts and smite Blogger's first born sons as soon as possible! I bet they'll notice THAT in their feed! And then part the Mississippi. And remember Mel Brooks. FIFTEEN commandments on THREE tablets, not just ten on two. BTW, am I alone in finding Nathan's blog incredibly slo...

Oh goody! A pity party and we're all invited. Just change the '90s music to '70s and you're me, Danielle. Well, you'd also need a small operation...and you'd have to bump off your husband and son... My situation is closer to Dios4vida's, yet I write even slower than her. And I do wish Neil Gaiman's ...

Bloggers of the world, ignite! But, if you were really clever, you wouldn't have a blog at all. Instead, you'd write nearly a thousand comments and posts on SOMEONE ELSE'S blog and Forums! So I'm okay until Nathan suddenly decides to pack in all this social networking malarkey and take up golf inste...

'We all dream of this kind of a boon.' Do we? Chances are you won't get rich in any endeavor. But people do. If quiet, literary, pretty customary and run of the mill is what you aspire to, you may get it, but are unlikely to get more. I strive to avoid either reading or writing quiet, literary, pret...

It's obvious, Sommer. Jacob repels water! But Nathan, don't fire any more rockets at Omaha, Nebraska. The USAF might misunderstand and fire back!

Great shot of your son, Robin! Great pics, everybody! Books and cake and cats, what's not to love?

Brilliant! And also proof against bill-collectors, religious converters, ex-wives, and boring friends! My house could do with a makeover. All I need is a thousand tons of concrete and some shuttering...

Steal Banks' time machine, go back in time to the seventies and bump him off. Then write another novel about a writer who steals another writer's time machine, goes back in time, bumps him off and writes another novel about a writer who steals...

BTW, a Flavorzoid sounds like an edible robot.

Very few buyers out there for $25 hardcovers, Nathan? Nobody buys hardcovers anymore, David? Depends on the hardback, I suppose. And the discounts, which are a paradoxical aspect of windowing. Windowing vs introductory offers is a classic reversible situation, with no single correct answer. I buy lo...

You're right, Margo. I like horses too much too. Though I couldn't eat a whole one. I'll just have to send the whole horse. Once I find a quarter mile of wrapping paper...

PassiveGuy, what's a 'mass market e-book'?