My writing career has been taking a really circuitous path over the last couple of years, and unfortunately, there's still no end in sig...

As many of you know, my agent medically retired toward the beginning of last year. I'd already been struggling to come up with my next p...

Lots of folks have been discussing querying trends on Twitter, so I thought it might be time for another deep dive into my querying statisti...

I know, I know, long time, no blog. What can I say? It's 2020. But one of the many things I've been working on this year is an MG co...

I've been elbow-deep in house listings for the last couple of weeks, and it's gotten me thinking: what if selling a house were like ...

It's okay, you don't have to pay I've got all the change --Ben Folds, "Still Fighting It" I don't do change...

I've blogged about querying a lot. It's one of those topics fellow writers always want to read about, and if I'm being completel...

Or at least some things... Second only to an offer, a revise-and-resubmit--or an R&R, as they're often called--can be a fantastic ...

Now that I have a little time for blogging (read: now that I finished my latest revision), I've been thinking about what I might say, an...

You know that scene in Kung Fu Panda when Po's talking to his dad just before he fights Tai Lung? Po's freaking out about the fact ...

I've said this, like, twenty times in the last couple of months, so I thought I'd say it here and get it out once and for all:) Ther...

We always tell writers to query widely. You never know who’s going to love your work, we explain, so get that manuscript in front of as many...

So many things remind me of writing (I’m sure you understand), so when I heard this talk from President Dieter F. Uchtdorf a few weeks ago, ...

First off, an apology: Due to unforeseen circumstances, I’m cancelling this month’s round of “An Agent’s Inbox.” And because of the general ...

I don't like to interrupt rounds of "An Agent's Inbox," but the blogging bug bit me last night, and I couldn't hold th...

Querying and submitting aren't exactly alike--the biggest difference, of course, is that you have an agent in your corner when you'r...

I'm away from home and not finding a lot of time to blog, so I thought I'd throw an older post up here that didn't get a lot of ...

Several people around forums like Absolute Write and QueryTracker have been asking recently how to word those pesky follow-up e-mails you ...

All right, so I left off at the e-mail. (Here’s the first half of the story, in case you missed it yesterday.) As I mentioned before, the e...

I’ve written this post a hundred times over the last few years, but unfortunately for you, I never wrote anything down any of those other ni...