Happy New Year Smyrna Writers!
I sure hope you all enjoyed your holidays. Or at least got through them relatively unscathed. :-)
Hate writing queries? Firebrand Literary Agency is having a query holiday. Until January 15th, writers can send in their first chapters and skip that dreaded letter altogether. Just wandering around their site, it looks like a lot of their recent deals have been for children's lit.
Miss Snark's First Victim's next Secret Agent contest is for children's lit writers as well! Be one of the first 50 entrants on the 12th and you'll get the first page of your completed novel in front of an agent who represents the genre. See this page for details and rules.
Bookends Agency Blog, in my opinion, is one of the best agency blogs around. These two posts are why. What is a Book Proposal for Non-fiction Writers and What is a Book Proposal for Fiction Writers.
The king of promotion, J.A. Konrath, posted a great guide to how you can measure the effectiveness of online marketing.
That's all for this week! Hope to see everybody at our first meeting of 2009! It's this Saturday, 1-10 at 1:00 p.m.
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Is this meeting at the Smyrna library?
"Smyrna Writers meets the second and last Saturdays of the month at 1:00 p.m. in the Smyrna Library conference room."
Heh. Just saw that from your sidebar.
Hi! It sure is! I'm a doof and didn't check comments yesterday, so we're actually meeting in five minutes. D'oh!
No problem. Thank you! It was my fault anyhow.
I've been a professional writer for radio for the last decade, but I'd like to move into fiction. I'll try to make an upcoming meeting - it would be great to connect with other local writers.
We'd love to have you! Our next meeting is the 31st at 1:00 p.m. We're all at different levels, but we always manage to learn something from each other.
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