Heard around the internet

  • Agent Colleen Lindsay on word counts and novel length. Includes these words of wisdom: “Good writers learn how to pare a manuscript down to its most essential elements…”
  • Agent Ginger Clark discusses how to (and how not to) approach agents in this podcast interview with Jon Armstrong.
  • Author MJ Rose talks about authors getting involved in marketing and publicity, and why publishers should pay us differently when we do…
  • … and HarperStudio publisher Bob Miller responds.
  • The difference between middle-grade and YA fiction from Write4Kids.com.
  • Author John Scalzi’s take on the current all-over-the-internet discussion about asking professional writers to read your manuscript.
  • And the world’s richest short story prize.

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