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THE COOLEST CLASS – Submitting Short Work: Toward a Book Deal
Alle is teaching! You want to write a novel or short story collection. You might have work ready to submit; maybe not. You may not have a query letter or a system for tracking submissions, Let’s create them in this six-week class offered at Seattle’s Richard Hugo House. In the first half of each session,… →
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Searching for a literary agent is depressing and soul wrecking.
Someone said: I’m only going to query 50 literary agents, for my new unpublished novel, after that, I’m going to self-publish and never bother with traditional publishing ever again for the rest of my life. Understanding #1: a good literary agent can receive 1,000 queries a month. Just knowing this fact should assuage a lot… →
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Alle’s “Quickest Way to Triumph Over Rejections”
By which I mean: a literal rejection letter. Whether you hope to publish short pieces or a book, get together a list of five places you want to submit. Send out. As you wait for a response—could be months!—get together a second list of five. Send those out. With ten in circulation, wait to send… →
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Roxanne Gay ALERT: Her eponymous imprint is open to subs!
The famed author of Bad Feminist, Difficult Women, and perhaps most notable (for this overeater, anyway) Hunger runs Roxanne Gay Books (an imprint of Grove Atlantic). As you can imagine, agents submit with the determination of lifeguards scanning riptide. If your book offers what the press deems “beautifully written, provocative, intelligent, [risky]” writing, get on over there and sub it. … →
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Closing in on 300 for the year
I know I sent out a YTD Subs/Rejections only a few days ago, but I hit the lovely above number today. Hoping for at least 300 subs before 2022. →
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YTD Submissions, Acceptances, and Rejections: August through 1/2-November, 2021
Submissions: 294 Rejections: 242 Good Rejections: 57 Acceptances: 10 Publications 5 NUMBER OF NOVELS ACCEPTED: One. But that’ll do me. Still zinging over the acceptance of my first novel, As Far as You Can Go… →