Category Archives: Submissions

Query Letter Workshop Reminder

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Here’s a reminder about the upcoming query letter class. The usual rate to write a query letter for a client is $295. Revisions to existing query letters often cost $225, so this workshop is a great bargain!

Did you know that your query letter is every bit as important as the opening pages of your novel? 
It’s your first opportunity to show your writing skills to a prospective agent or editor, and you need to make it count!

Laine CunninghamLaine Cunningham’s clients consistently garner attention from the nation’s top publishers and agents.

During this workshop Laine discusses the three important elements to inject into your query so you can get published. Fiction and nonfiction authors writing books, stories or articles will benefit from this class.

Location: Center for Excellence,
3803-B Computer Dr. Suite 106,
Raleigh, NC 27609
Saturday, March 9     Time:  1:30-4:30pm
Fee:  $55 (Early Bird till March 1st)/$75 after

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Laine has presented workshops and lectures for The Loft, the nation’s largest independent literary organization; the National Writer’s Union; The Writer’s Workshop in Asheville and writing conferences across the country. If you want to learn how to impress an agent or editor, I will see you there!
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Alice Osborn
Write from the Inside Out

Query Letter

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This just in from a client whose query letter I revised:

After just a quick read, I LOVE IT! Thank you so much, Laine. You truly have a gift.

Rejections

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For anyone who needs a laugh about all those “good” rejections they’ve been getting, check out this blog post.

Ebook Trends

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Here’s a literary magazine that has become a publisher of ebooks.

In the past few years, I’ve noticed several kinds of organizations entering the ebook arena. Most notable are the handful of book agents who have opened publishing companies.

This is one of those indicators of how large the shift is in traditional publishing these days. When agents, and some of the nation’s top agents at that, are shifting where they spend their time, nearly anything can happen.

Keep this in mind as you consider whether to approach traditional publishers, self-publish through print and/or ebooks, or do both at once. These days, it pays to play your cards across a wide spectrum.

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Here’s a roundup of multiple literary magazines from Treehouse.

 

Short Story Collections

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This article from Review Review is probably familiar to those of you who write short stories. Too often authors hear from agents and publishers that their collection is fantastic in so many ways…but they aren’t interested unless the author also has a novel.

I’ve sponsored a writing contest for the last four years. When I first approached the literary magazine that administers the contest, the publisher and senior editor both agreed that short story collections, linked or not, would be accepted and encouraged as submissions.

Last year a collection won first place, and in previous years, collections have placed second, third, or as honorable mention. The Blotter and I are very clear in our support of short stories as viable, living art.

More on the trending of literary magazines: growth and shrinkage.

From Hubpages:

Recently I found a master list of online literary magazines I had printed out in 2005, and I wondered how many of them were still in action.

Literary Magazine/Contest

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The Blotter is one of the few literary magazines that still has a print run of 8,000 copies…and that’s every month! They’re reaching for 10,000 so they’re a great place to submit.

Their annual contest is still running. Submit any book-length fiction, including young adult, short story collections, literary novels, commercial novels (like sci-fi, horror, mystery, thrillers, romance, etc.), mainstream, and novellas.

Unique Publisher

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Sipscard is another unique idea that allows authors of short prose to get their work out to a wide readership. From the publishers:

Sips Card puts short fiction and poetry into local coffee shop venues around the country (and in Scotland). We are a publication run by artists, for artists. Each card contains a QR code, loaded with a short story, or set of poems, from a writer meant to last as long as a cup of coffee. The cards include the issue’s author, story title, and website/e-mail.