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  • Writing Your Best Query Letter

    Amy Levenson
    Amy Levenson
    Literary agents don’t have time to read every manuscript sent their way. There just aren’t enough hours in the day. So how do they find the next great novel or universally loved memoir? Enter the query letter. Next to your manuscript, the query letter...
    • over 7 years ago
    • Traditional Publishing
    • Book Proposals
  • 6 Steps for Achieving Success and Finding Fulfillment as an Author

    Sheri Fink
    Sheri Fink
    Being a successful author these days requires more than just writing & selling books. In this session, best-selling children’s author Sheri Fink shares the top six steps for achieving goals and finding success as an author. Learn strategies to increase...
    • over 4 years ago
    • Managing Your Writing Life
    • Goal Setting and Process
  • The Texture of Urgency: How to Deeply Engage Your Readers From the First Page to the Last

    Helga Schier
    Helga Schier
    Urgency is not unique to thrillers and not always a function of a fast pace. Urgency drives all fiction and a slow-moving passage can have you at the edge of your seat. Urgency may sit deep inside the subtext of a scene, manifest in a character’s motivation...
    • over 3 years ago
    • Managing Your Writing Life
    • Education and Craft
  • The Editor/Agent Relationship - article

    Alan Rinzler
    Alan Rinzler
    It’s amazing how many submissions a publisher receives—dozens every day, thousands over the year. Very, very few of them are ever acquired, because very few of them are really what the publisher is looking for. There aren’t that many editors; it’s not...
    • over 8 years ago
    • Careers
    • Professional Editor
  • Welcome V1 - S06 - AC Reminder

     
  • Using Fiction Elements to Enrich Your Non-Fiction Writing

    Allie Pleiter
    Allie Pleiter
    We all know stories have high impact. Great storytelling engages your reader and persuades your audience. Let bestselling fiction author Allie Pleiter show you how elements of fiction—dialogue, description, and characterization—can give your non-fiction...
    • over 3 years ago
    • Nonfiction
    • Elements
  • Tricks of the Trade: Writing Tips to Make Your Prose Pop

    Jeanne Lyet Gassman
    Jeanne Lyet Gassman
    Did you know there are dozens of little things you can do to make your writing stand out from the crowd? In this webinar with award-winning writer Jeanne Lyet Gassman, she looks at the tricks writing professionals use to make their prose more polished...
    • over 2 years ago
    • Managing Your Writing Life
    • Education and Craft
  • Genre Basics – Urban Fiction

    Author Learning Center
    Author Learning Center
    Urban fiction, also known as street lit, hip-hop lit, gansta lit, or ghetto lit, tells the story of life in the inner-city, generally with a gritty, dark tone. The plot shines a light on the harsh realities of life in the city, including hard subjects...
    • over 7 years ago
    • I have an Idea!
    • Choosing Your Topic
  • How to Determine the Best Point of View for Your Story

    Helga Schier
    Helga Schier
    The most important part of crafting a well-written story is to make informed and intentional choices about how a story will be told. One element that needs to be decided at the beginning of a story is the point of the narrator. In this video, editor...
    • over 6 years ago
    • Fiction
    • Points of View
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