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Queryfest, part VII: pretty is as pretty does, or, what makes you think that polyester minidresses are still in style, Barbie?

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Queryfest, part V: things are not always as they appear to be

Entr’acte: an increasingly common criticism that simply makes no sense in literate circles

Queryfest, part IV: wait, you mean it matters how it looks on the page?

Queryfest, part III: eschewing the classic annoyance triggers, or, leaving that leaf unturned may cost you

Queryfest, part II: the infamous self-rejecting query, or, when is a letter addressed to a business not a business letter?

Queryfest 2011 is open for business — and the masses rejoice!

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Queryfest, part VII: pretty is as pretty does, or, what makes you think that polyester minidresses are still in style, Barbie?

Queryfest, part VI: is this my best side?

Queryfest, part V: things are not always as they appear to be

Entr’acte: an increasingly common criticism that simply makes no sense in literate circles

Queryfest, part IV: wait, you mean it matters how it looks on the page?

Queryfest, part III: eschewing the classic annoyance triggers, or, leaving that leaf unturned may cost you

Queryfest, part II: the infamous self-rejecting query, or, when is a letter addressed to a business not a business letter?

Queryfest 2011 is open for business — and the masses rejoice!

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An update on the Author! Author! Perfect Pitch Competition of 2011 — and would anyone out there like to be a guinea pig for Queryfest?

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the quite good query letter we discussed in Part I of this series
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Realistic expectations for queriers
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Small publishers
What are the polite ways to approach an agent?
What info should be in a query?
Why generic queries don't work
Why might my query have gotten rejected?
Why shouldn't I send the same query to every agent?
Why you shouldn't query every agent in the country
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Queryfest, part VI: is this my best side?
Approaching agents online or by e-mail
Author photo
Book jackets and the things that go on them
But my book doesn't fit comfortably into just one category!
E-mailing queries
Frankenstein queries
Freshness in queries
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How long before a request for pages expires?
How to talk about your target audience without sounding boastful
How to write a query letter from scratch
How to write a query letter step by step
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Keeping the faith
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Realistic expectations for queriers
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What an agent will expect a new client to know about the publishing industry -- a crash course
What are the polite ways to approach an agent?
What if I have more than one book to query?
What info should be in a query?
What makes a good author bio or photo?
What NOT to say to an agent interested in your work
Why might my query have gotten rejected?
Your book's selling points
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Queryfest, part V: things are not always as they appear to be
my last post
my earlier post on the subject
How to write a query letter step by step
How to write a query's book description paragraph
How to write a synopsis from scratch
How to write that pesky description of your book for a query
Query letter troubleshooting
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Entr’acte: an increasingly common criticism that simply makes no sense in literate circles
a recent post
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a claim that an entire post could have been summed up in a single rule
a recent commenter excoriated me
Why are Author! Author! posts so long?
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Queryfest, part IV: wait, you mean it matters how it looks on the page?
After you've been rejected
Approaching agents online or by e-mail
Dear Agent letters
E-mailing queries
Frankenstein queries
How to format an e-mailed query
How to write a query letter from scratch
How to write a query letter step by step
Keeping the faith
Queries that are too long
Query formatting
Query letter troubleshooting
Query letters for beginners
Query letters illustrated
Queryfest!
Querying
Querying fatigue
Querying faux pas
Querying or submitting to US agencies from outside the US
Querying via e-mail or online
Realistic expectations for queriers
Self-rejecting queries
What an agent will expect your query to look like
What should a query letter look like?
What should a query look like?
Why might my query have gotten rejected?
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Queryfest, part III: eschewing the classic annoyance triggers, or, leaving that leaf unturned may cost you
Common agents' pet peeves
Frankenstein queries
How to write a query letter from scratch
How to write a query letter step by step
Industry terminology
Memoir querying
Query letter troubleshooting
Queryfest!
Querying
Querying fatigue
Querying faux pas
Realistic expectations for queriers
Realistic expectations for writers
Self-rejecting queries
What info should be in a query?
What is a book category?
Why might my query have gotten rejected?
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Queryfest, part II: the infamous self-rejecting query, or, when is a letter addressed to a business not a business letter?
a completely different standard format for manuscripts
detail-oriented reader Kathy pointed out
Agency submission guidelines and how to read them
Approaching agents online or by e-mail
Common agents' pet peeves
Dear Agent letters
E-mailing queries
Eye-Catching Query Letter Candy
Freshness in queries
How to format an e-mailed query
How to write a query letter from scratch
How to write a query letter step by step
Indentation and why it isn't optional
Industry etiquette
Platform paragraph in a query
Query formatting
Query letter troubleshooting
Queryfest!
Querying
Querying ethics
Querying faux pas
Querying via e-mail or online
Realistic expectations for queriers
Realistic expectations for writers
Self-rejecting queries
What are the polite ways to approach an agent?
Why is there so much conflicting advice about queries?
Why might my query have gotten rejected?
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Queryfest 2011 is open for business — and the masses rejoice!
I may have mentioned last weekend
clever and incisive reader Elizabeth commented
here is how to go about submitting it
Agency submission guidelines and how to read them
Being an agent's dream client
Common agents' pet peeves
Dear Agent letters
Frankenstein queries
Freshness in queries
How to write a query letter from scratch
How to write a query letter step by step
Industry terminology
Keeping the faith
Literary fiction queries
Memoir querying
Nonfiction querying
Query letters for beginners
Queryfest!
Querying
Realistic expectations for queriers
Realistic expectations for writers
Self-rejecting queries
What are the polite ways to approach an agent?
What info should be in a query?
What is a query letter?
Why generic queries don't work
Why is there so much conflicting advice about queries?
Why might my query have gotten rejected?
Why you shouldn't query every agent in the country
No Comments
Premises, premises
Kelly
Agency screeners' pet peeves of the notorious variety
Anne's editorial pet peeves
Art Of Revision
Autobiographical fiction
Building suspense
But it really happened that way!
Character and conflict development in memoir
Character development in memoir
Character development tips
Cliché avoidance
Common rejection triggers
Constructing a narrative
Craft! In-depth analysis
Creating sufficiently odious antagonists
Descriptive shortcuts and narrative shorthand
Editing for complexity
Editing for freshness
Editing memoir
First-person narration
Freshness in manuscripts
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Genres and their conventions
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Hasn't the narrative used that phrasing already?
Is my manuscript dated?
Literary fiction craft
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Minimizing structural repetition and conceptual redundancy
Passive protagonists
Plot development
Rejection: when they don't tell you why
Revision tips
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Storytelling structure
The little things that drive the pros nuts
Tight third-person narration
What does and doesn't make a voice unique?
Why sounding like your favorite author from a decade ago might not work well now
Why what worked in the 19th century might not work on the page today
Why what worked in the latest bestseller might not work tomorrow
Writing advice truisms
Writing clichés
Writing memoir
Writing the real
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An update on the Author! Author! Perfect Pitch Competition of 2011 — and would anyone out there like to be a guinea pig for Queryfest?
Author! Author! Perfect Pitch Competition of 2011
The elevator speech
The formal 2-minute pitch
Mini Consult
standard format for book manuscripts
the elevator speech
the formal 2-minute pitch
Author! Author! Awards for Expressive Excellence
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What’s up with A Family Darkly?
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Agency submission guidelines and how to read them
Approaching agents at conferences
Approaching agents online or by e-mail
Common agents' pet peeves
First pages agents tend to dislike
Generating a querying list
How can I tell if an agent is reputable?
How much of a book must be written before I can pitch or query it?
Is it OK to approach two agents at the same agency?
Is it OK to query several agents at once?
Is it OK to submit to several agents at once?
Realistic expectations for pitchers
Realistic expectations for queriers
Realistic expectations for submitters
What are the polite ways to approach an agent?
What info should be in a query?
What should a query look like?
Why do I need an agent?
Why haven't I heard back yet?
Why might I consider pitching instead of querying?
Why shouldn't I send the same query to every agent?
Why you shouldn't query every agent in the country
Anne's Book Picks
Anne's editorial pet peeves
Anne's favorite posts
Author bio
Author photo
Author readings and why you should attend them
Author! Author! Awards for Expressive Excellence
Autobiographical fiction
Back jacket blurbs
Back-up copies
Bad laughter
Binding your work
Book categories
But my book doesn't fit comfortably into just one category!
Genres and their conventions
How to figure out your book's category
What is a book category?
Book concept
Book jackets and the things that go on them
Book keynote
Book length
Book marketing 101
Book promotion from the author's perspective
Book promotion
Book reviews and how they work
Book tours
Coming up with a marketing plan
Dealing with readers' reactions to one's books
Figuring out your book's selling points
Getting a good author photo
Giving a good author interview
Giving good author readings
Setting up your own book signings
Wait — I might not get to choose my book's title?
What makes a good author bio or photo?
Book proposals
Book publishing basics
Building blocks of a pitch or query
Building your writing résumé
Calls for submissions
Censorship subtle and otherwise
Changing nature of publishing
Character development
Character development in memoir
Character development tips
Character-revealing dialogue
Creating sufficiently odious antagonists
Introducing physical descriptions
Relationship development
Secondary characters
Selecting distinctive character names
Showing (not telling) character
Subtle ways to make characters seem more or less intelligent
Collaboration
Conferences that cater to writers
Contests and how to enter them successfully
Contest entry bugbears
Contest entry prep
Contest judging criteria
Contest rules and how to follow them
Contest synopsis-writing
Finding the right contest to enter
I'm a finalist — what now?
Copyright issues
Craft and plenty of it
Action scenes
Avoiding killing your darlings
Backstory and how to work it into a plot
Beginning and ending a book
Building suspense
Character blurring
Cliché avoidance
Conflict-building
Constructing a narrative
Craft! In-depth analysis
Descriptive shortcuts and narrative shorthand
False suspense
Flashbacks
Good writing habits to form
Hollywood narration
Hooks
Jargon usage
Narrative consistency
Pacing a scene
Passive protagonists
Passive voice and why you should eschew it
Plausibility
Plot development
Protagonist likability
Protagonist memorability
Real stories told as fiction
Realistic dialogue
Running order
Setting time and place
Show don't tell
Storytelling structure
Suspense-building
Tense-switching
Tension-building
The End
Vivid details
Voice
What makes a great page 1?
Why sounding like your favorite author from a decade ago might not work well now
Why what worked in the 19th century might not work on the page today
Why what worked in the latest bestseller might not work tomorrow
Write what you know
Writing comedy
Writing love scenes
Writing on dark topics
Writing the real
Writing the unreal
Dark comedy
Deadlines and how to meet them
Dialogue and how to write it well
Dialogue that adds to the scene
Dialogue that moves quickly
Dialogue that moves TOO quickly
Dialogue that rings true
Dialogue-only scenes
Formatting dialogue
Interview scenes that work
Jargon in dialogue
Editing your own manuscript
Art Of Revision
But it really happened that way!
Drama vs melodrama
Editing dialogue
Editing fantasy
Editing for clarity
Editing for complexity
Editing for freshness
Editing for humor
Editing for length
Editing for pacing
Editing for plausibility
Editing for style
Editing for voice
Editing memoir
Editing the opening pages
How and why politeness can make a scene drag
Is my manuscript dated?
Making physical contact come to life on the page
Manuscript megaproblems
Minimizing structural repetition and conceptual redundancy
Perspective switching
Plot flares
Pulling the reader out of the story
Purging protagonist passivity
Sagging in the middle
Slow openings
Tag lines and how to minimize them
The little things that drive the pros nuts
Writing clichés
Editors and how to work with publishing houses
Book contracts
Editorial committees
Editorial memos
Editors
Hardcover vs trade paper
How authors get paid for their books
How big may I expect my initial print run to be?
How much time passes between contract and publication?
PItching to editors at conferences
Unsolicited submissions
What happens if an editor falls in love with my book?
Who has ultimate say over a book's title?
Electronic querying and submission
E-mailed submissions
E-mailing queries
How to e-mail requested materials
How to format an e-mailed query
Querying forms on agency websites
Epigraphs
Ergonomics
Exclusives and multiple submission
Fee-charging agencies
Feedback on your writing
Critique groups
Feedback incorporation
Feedback that's actually helpful
Getting good at accepting feedback
Getting good feedback
Finances for writers
Finding agents to query
Finding time to write
Formatpalooza!
Formatting manuscripts
Frankenstein phenomena in submissions
Frankenstein manuscripts
Frankenstein queries
Frankenstein voice and punctuation issues
Hasn't the narrative made that point already?
Hasn't the narrative used that phrasing already?
Freelance editors
Freelance writing
Freshness
Freshness in a pitch
Freshness in book proposals
Freshness in manuscripts
Freshness in phrasing
Freshness in queries
Freshness in synopses
Freshness on page 1
Genre fiction
Getting a book published basics
Getting a book reviewed
Getting paid for your writing
Getting started on your next book
Great gifts for writers
Guest blogs & interviews
Guidelines for posting comments
Helpful habits for writers
How do manuscripts get published?
How long before a request for pages expires?
How long is too long for a manuscript?
How the publishing industry works — and doesn't
How to…
How can I choose between competing advice?
How do I find a freelance editor?
How NOT to write a first page
How to decide which contests are worth your time to enter
How to estimate word count — and why
How to figure out your book's category
How to find agents to query
How to format a book manuscript
How to format a book proposal
How to format a title page
How to put together a query packet
How to put together a submission packet
How to query via e-mail
How to read an agency listing
How to remove a slug line from a title page
How to respond to a request for a partial
How to set up book signings
How to write a 1-page synopsis
How to write a book proposal
How to write a memoir synopsis
How to write a nonfiction pitch
How to write a nonfiction synopsis
How to write a pitch
How to write a pitch at the last minute
How to write a pitch only three sentences long (if you must)
How to write a query letter from scratch
How to write a query letter in a hurry
How to write a query's book description paragraph
How to write a query's opening paragraph
How to write a really good query letter
How to write a really good synopsis
How to write a synopsis for a contest
How to write a synopsis for a multiple-protagonist novel
How to write a synopsis from scratch
How to write a synopsis in a hurry
How to write an author bio
Identifying your target market
Independent presses
Industry etiquette
Industry terminology
Interviews & guest blogs
Keeping the faith
Legal issues for writers
Let's talk about this
Literary fiction and its challenges
Literary fiction craft
Literary fiction defined
Literary fiction marketing
Literary fiction pacing
Literary fiction pitching
Literary fiction queries
Literary fiction synopses
Literary fiction voice
Manuscripts and how to format them properly
Chapter headings and openings
Clean manuscripts and why they are desirable
Date and time announcements
Dialogue formatting
Ending your manuscript
How do I make the page n

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