Writer's Digest Tutorials: Writing A Selling Romance

WRITER'S DIGEST TUTORIALS

For ahicks4298@q.com April 25, 2012

In This Issue From the Editor Featured Tutorial: How to Make Your Romance Hot Enough for an Agent Missed a previous tutorial? Live Webinar | The Publishable Novel: How to get an Acquisition Editor to say "YES!" Writer's Digest Tutorials Membership Options Special Opportunity: Online Agent Fiction Pitch Slam From the Editor Wherever you are reading this note from—I sincerely hope it's a great day for you! As I work on the tutorials, I always find it interesting as not only do the tutorials relate to our writing goals and careers—I also find that they relate well to life in general. Those of you that read my note last week know about the unfortunate loss of my kitty. The update to that is this: we adopted an 8-month old kitten that had been in a shelter for far too long. She's adjusting well, and we are adjusting well. But this led me to this conclusion (yes, which I already knew, but it was a great reminder): the one constant is change.  As you are also well aware, publishing is an ever-changing market. And for those of us that write, who doesn't aspire to be a published author? This week's tutorial touches on this, but it also heavily focuses on a super HOT genre in today's market: Romance.  How to Make Your Romance Hot Enough for an Agent is an enlightening and engaging tutorial. Romance novels represent a huge chunk of fiction sales. Readers devour romance. Agents are hungry to sell romance to publishing houses. If you write in this HOT genre, you need to know what captures the attention of an agent, an editor, and all those voracious readers!  Side note...but...before you any read further, promise me that you'll come back to the newsletter and finish reading or will at least take a peek at the clip of today's featured tutorial. (Thank you!) Remember how I mentioned the Writer's Digest YouTube channeland the special drawing? The full details of the drawing can be found here:http://bit.ly/Ia1bSu. Any of you that already subscribed to the channel have automatically been entered into the drawing!  Be looking for next week's newsletter where I'll highlight our newest tutorial. Please also feel free to preview the many tutorials available to you through the Writer's Digest Tutorials site! Wishing you only the best! Julie Oblander Online Education Manager Writer's Digest Tutorials Featured Tutorial: How to Make Your Romance Hot Enough for an Agent Romance novels represent a huge chunk of fiction sales. Readers devour romance. Agents are hungry to sell romance to publishing houses. If you write in this HOT genre, you need to know what captures the attention of an agent, an editor, and all those voracious readers!  Instructor Sara Megibow has worked at the Nelson Literary Agency since 2006. As a literary agent, Sara has enjoyed tremendous success selling debut romance authors into major New York publishing houses.  In this 81-minute tutorial video, you'll learn:  The specific elements of a romance novel agents look for in submissions. How to analyze your writing, your platform, your hook, and your pitch.  Common red flags to avoid in your romance novel.  Places to go to get your work reviewed and critiqued.  How to make an accurate list of legitimate agents who rep romance novels and how to approach them successfully.  How to mold a successful publishing career out of the options you have in today's ever-changing market. Preview this new tutorial or subscribe to watch it today > Missed a previous tutorial? Try one of these . . . An Agent's Tips on Story Structures that Sell 150 Ways to Make Your Book Successful - Part 1 150 Ways to Make Your Book Successful - Part 2 150 Ways to Make Your Book Successful - Part 3 A new tutorial is added every week at Writer's Digest Tutorials. Don't miss out!Subscribe today OR download tutorials individually through the Writer's Digest Shop. Writing the Great American RomanceSale: $19.95 Buy Now > On Writing Romance eBookSale: $16.99 Buy Now > How to Write & Sell Your First NovelSale: $9.34 Buy Now > Live Webinar | The Publishable Novel: How to get an Acquisition Editor to say "YES!" There's still time to register and attend!  Session date: Thursday, April 26, 2012 Starting time: 1:00 p.m. EST Duration: 90 minutes  In this webinar, you will learn the elements and standards used by acquisition editors in selecting material, as well as the criteria and considerations, and even the attitudes that acquisition editors bring to submitted manuscripts. We will show you how to leverage your skills and experience to serve your career goals in publishing. Above all, you will learn how to get the acquisition editor to say, "Yes!"  This webinar includes a critique! You are invited to submit a one-page synopsis for critique by one of the presenters.  SPECIAL BONUS! Each registrant will ALSO receive a FREE 3-month subscription to WritersMarket.com. WritersMarket.com is the premiere resource to find agents and publishers who are interested in your type of work. Learn More or Register Today > Visit WritersDigestShop.com to browse the full selection of webinars and tutorials > Writer's Digest Tutorials Membership Options 1-Month Full-Library Subscription Want to try us out? Buy a 1-month membership and receive access to our entire collection.Subscribe Now >6-Month Full-Library Subscription Purchase a membership to all of our videos for 6 months and watch them whenever you'd like. Subscribe Now > 12-Month Full-Library Subscription -- Best Value! Get access to all of our writing workshops for an entire year. Watch every video whenever you like and as often as you would like and be the first to watch the new tutorial we post each week. Subscribe Now > Special Opportunity: Online Agent Fiction Pitch Slam Have you ever wished that you had the attention of an agent, as well as the training necessary to craft the perfect pitch? At the Writer's Digest Online Agent Fiction Pitch Slam, you'll get the instruction and opportunity you need to do both!  This experience begins on Thursday, April 26 and concludes Tuesday, May 1, 2012.  Space is limited . . . only 8 seats left!