This month I did a video that gives short story publishing tips and takes you through a tutorial on using The (Submission) Grinder to find good markets for your work!
This is the first time I’ve used an application to do extensive screen capture, and it was a pain, so I hope people find it useful!
Here’s something a little different from my usual: I’m offering a video about romance tropes in fiction and how they can sometimes send damaging messages to people about what real-life romance is and what place it should occupy in our lives. Informed primarily from an aromantic perspective–meaning that I’m a person who rarely sees herself in fictional narratives and is affected more negatively by certain messages about romance the way it is currently handled in fiction.
The big takeaway from this video is that we need more important friendships in our fiction! And fewer assumptions about the inevitability of romance and the heteronormative assumption!
I decided to do a video about my pet peeves in writing. It’s about half complaining and half writing advice, touching on my oddly specific dislikes. Enjoy!
Since I get a lot of questions from people wanting to begin or get back into their writing projects, I figured I would make this video with some hints on how to motivate yourself and get back into the writing groove.
Sometimes people think the only reason to try to get a literary agent is so you can have a chance at the Big Five or get considered by publishers who don’t take unagented stuff, but there are so many more things agents can and likely will do for clients besides sell their books. Here’s my video about those things. Agent love!
In the same vein as my previous post about less frequently asked questions about querying, I’m now posting the follow-up: Not-So-Frequently Asked Questions about submission for agented authors.
In the video, I answer the following questions:
I’ve got a new video on querying literary agents . . . and this time, I’m addressing the not-so-frequently asked questions. If you’ve got the basics down but have some lingering concerns, check this out and ask your own!
In the video, I answer the following questions:
Here’s a new video for you in which I go over the mistakes I’ve seen many querying authors making in their query letters. This is based on a couple years’ worth of Pitch Wars mentoring, outlining the problems with the synopses and the bio section that I saw the most often.
You really don’t want to fall for a publishing scam. But sometimes the world of getting published is a lot more complicated than it seems like it should be, so it’s easy to get swindled or tricked if you don’t know the red flags.
This video is about the red flags.
Some people love giving advice to new/young writers. Sometimes, that advice involves telling others how to do things exactly the way they do things, framing those how-to’s as the only options for becoming successful.
One of the ones I hear most often is “You MUST write EVERY DAY.”
This video is about why that’s not true and why it’s important to trust yourself to find your own rhythm and schedule for your writing.