Book Publishers Looking for Writers

Hello readers,

If any of you have written a book and would like to personally query a publishing company, check out the 3 publishers below.


3 RECENTLY UPDATED BOOK PUBLISHERS
WritersMarket.com lists more than 1,000 book publishers for writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, writing for children, and more. Here are three recently updated listings:

• Arte Publico Press publishes 25-30 titles per year focused on Hispanic literature for adults and children. This press accepts submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry through an online submission form.
• Menasha Ridge Press publishes 20 titles per year in the areas of outdoor sports, travel, and diving. Prospective authors should submit a query either via post or e-mail.
• Sourcebooks Landmark is a fiction imprint of Sourcebooks. At the moment, this imprint is specifically looking for romance submissions via e-mail or post; guidelines online.

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How To Be A Better Writer

Here are some interesting articles concerning

1) Writing an effective character description

2) Writing about family in a memoir

3)  How great writers wrote their first book

These articles are from a recent Writers Digest newsletter. So check them out.

How 5 Great Writers Got Started on Their First Books  While working on my book Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors, I found that even for the best writers in the world, getting started can be the hardest part. Here's how 5 great authors found what they needed to get started on their very first novels ... Read more ...

11 Secrets to Writing Effective Character Description The characters in our stories, songs, poems, and essays embody our writing. They are our words made flesh. Sometimes they even speak for us, carrying much of the burden of plot, theme, mood, idea, and emotion. But they do not exist until we describe them on the page. Here are 11 secrets to keep in mind as you breathe life into your characters through description.  Read more ...

How to Write About Family in a Memoir To write honestly and compassionately about members of your family, you must first reflect on your purpose, your approach, the details of your story and the potential reactions your family members might have. Here's how to do that.  Read more ...

How to Write a Film Script

Happy Friday, Readers!

Gather around and I'll tell you all you need to know!

Today's post concerns how to write a film script.  I figured you would like to hear the thoughts from a third person, someone other than me.

Click on the link below which will take you to a step-by-step detail explanation of going through the script writing process. I read through each point. the information is very informing. Follow what is explained, and you'll be able to write your script with no trouble. So click below

How I Write A Script

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6 Tips for Writing Fiction Based on True Events

This is going to be last post for today.

I get questions from writers about taking true events, mostly true personal events, and using them to create a fiction. Falling is an article from Writers Digest that can help answer your questions.


6 Tips for Writing Fiction Based on True Events

Brian A. Klems Online Editor WritersDigest.com @BrianKlems

Today's guest post is by Lorie Ann Grover, author of Hit. 

You are there. You see it. You're a writer, so, of course, you want to write about it. Now what? Writing fiction springing from an actual event, maybe one of your own personal experiences, requires a finesse for your reader's benefit, your friends', your enemies, and yourself. There is a way to handle the truth because you'll begin as if you are wearing kid gloves, but suddenly they will plump into boxing gloves, and before you know it, you are ready to deliver that punch right to your beloved, old auntie's face.

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1. Begin with the truth.

Truth is stranger than fiction, so there is certainly much to mine. Each of my contemporary novels sprang off the pages of my own life. Consider writing that first draft close to what happened, what you saw, and what you felt. Capture it.  Read more... 

Brian A. Klems Online Editor WritersDigest.com @BrianKlems

New Literary Agents To Query!

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

Today I have the names of two new literary agent to query. I got them from a recent email letter from GUIDE TO LITERARY AGENTS.

2 New Agents Seeking Clients NOW  Click on any name below to see the full mini-profile on the GLA Blog (with submission instructions). Good luck querying!   1. Amanda Panitch of Lippincott Massie McQuilkin She is seeking: Young adult and middle grade only. In particular, she'd love to find a high fantasy set in a non-Western inspired setting. Other concepts she'd love to see in her inbox include a dark psychological thriller, a quirky mystery, a gorgeous literary contemporary, historical fiction set in a place or time not often explored in fiction, or anything featuring food as a main element. She is also drawn to generational spaceships, unreliable narrators, magical realism, the pre-Columbian Americas, the Amazon, close sibling relationships, and slow-burning romances. 2. Kirsten Carleton of Waxman Leavell Literary Agency Kirsten is seeking: Upmarket young adult, speculative, and literary fiction with strong characters and storytelling. She's particularly interested in novels that bend and blur genres; literary takes on high concept worldbuilding; diverse characters in stories that are not just about diversity; antiheroes she find herself rooting for; characters with drive and passion; girls and women in STEM fields; settings outside the US/Europe; well-researched historical settings; YA noir/thriller/mystery; stories that introduces her to a new subculture and makes her feel like a native. She is not interested in horror, romance, erotica, poetry, or picture books.