This Saturday, 3/14/09, I’ll be in Fort Pierce, Florida at the Indian River State College Writer’s Weekend giving a presentation on “Creating Book Proposals.” Below are some links that attendees or really anyone who is interested in publishing non-fiction or fiction works might find helpful:
Web sources:
Nelson Literary Agency
Predators and Editors
Writer Beware
About.com Freelance Writing
The Fiction Editor, the Novel, and the Novelist
Writer’s Digest
How to Write a Query
Small Presses/Publishers:
American Short Fiction
The Journal
Glimmer Train
Pineapple Press
Books:
Your Novel Proposal: From Creation to Contract by Blythe Camenson & Marshall J. Cook
The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers by Betsy Lerner
Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent’s Eye by Katharine Sands
March 10, 2009 at 10:51 am
There’s also a great online forum called AbsolueWrite Water Cooler (www.absolutewrite.com/forums/), it has a very active and vibrant non-fiction forum and free-lance writer’s forum, a special area set aside just for query critiques, agents, editors and successful writers (as well as newbies and everything in between) hang out there (over 20k members).
March 10, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Thanks for the link, Dawno!