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With a Thankful Heart
Since our American readers are celebrating Thanksgiving this week, it seems a good time for a moment of gratitude. In fact, there's really no wrong time to be thankful.Many people consider writing to be a solitary activity. But however true that may be, when you begin a quest for publication,

7 Characteristics You Need To Get Published
In honor of our swiftly-approaching one-year mark, I'm pulling out one of the QueryTracker Blog Team's first posts.  Part of what's fun about the re-post is that I can link to many of the posts we've done over the past year! Agents and editors deal with hundreds of queries, synopses, proposals, and chapters every month. Whether you realize it or not, your approach to th

Publishing Pulse 11/20/09
New Literary Agents: Amy Burkhardt at Kimberley Cameron & Associates. From their website: "She represents both fiction and nonfiction projects for the adult market. In fiction, she looks for literary and commercial fiction, upmarket women's fiction, mysteries with a twist or an unusual prota

Prejudice: Not a Wise Platform Strategy
Platform, platform, platform. We hear it all the time--from agents, from editors, from publicists, from other writers both published and unpublished. "Develop a readership and a base so your novel will be successful," we are told. "Create a web presence and name recognition." So, we haunt forums and writer groups. We create a blog...or three, and then we stick our foot--or keyboard as it were--right in our mouth.

Interview with Former Contest Winner Cameron Jacobs
Cameron Jacobs writes thrillers and romantic suspense novels. She lives in Maryland with her husband and puppy, where she teaches international war and diplomacy. She's working on her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University. You can visit Cameron's website at