I’m honored to have another guest writer joining the blog. Wendy Burt-Thomas takes time out of her busy schedule to answer questions about queries and book authoring. She is a full-time freelance writer, editor and copywriter with more than 1,000 published pieces. Her third book, The Writers Digest Guide To Query Letters hit stores in … Read more
Photo credit Peter Gustafson I recently posted a query in Help a Reporter Out (HARO) that received the most responses ever — 50! I used only 23 replies because some were duplicates. Of those duplicates, I picked the best reply or person who thought of my readers instead of himself or herself. What may bug … Read more
But Don’t Have the “Squareballs” to Do So by Steve Kayser One particular day, after receiving a rejection letter (the first among many that I’ve never acknowledged) I got a little ticked. I mean, c’mon, I just spent three months banging out 120 pages of the best screenplay America has never seen. A classic. A … Read more