Comparative titles – aka comp titles – are one of the most critical (and despised) parts of a query letter. Welcome to another ring in the Query Hellscape. Here we are again. Social media or a real person somewhere told you that you need something called “comp titles.” Welcome to the part of your […]

Well, well, well, you’ve finished your manuscript. You and the Muse – super tight now. You’ve bled, rewritten, revised, and probably rage-edited (dismembered) your baby. Notches in the belt. And now… one more little, teensy, weensy page. No big deal. NO. BIG. DEAL. Yes, writing the book is hard – but writing about the book […]

You’ve crafted a flag emblazoned with your outpoured soul of a manuscript, the perfect query letter, sending it out into the void with crossed fingers is or should be just… business. You labor to raise the flag up the pole desperately hoping someone(s) will see it through a periscope from a far off sea. They […]