Open for Submissions
Get ready . . . get set . . . submit! On October 1st, we will re-open to submissions.So get ready to send in your queries for new projects. Remember, we want email queries only. But take a minute first...
View Article5 Questions...An aspiring writer should ask themselves before pursuing a...
1. Do you have the talent to be a professional novelist? I don’t mean, does your mother or spouse think you are a good writer but is your writing on par with novels, short stories and magazine...
View ArticleTechnical Glitch
We just discovered a technical glitch that was apparently deleting all emails coming into the queries account before we could read them. Don't know for sure when it started, but probably last week just...
View ArticleTips for Query Submissions
Now that queries have reopened, it seems like a good time to discuss a few do’s and don’ts for query submissions. Keep these in mind as you consider sending in your query!DO - Sell yourself and your...
View ArticleThe Importance Of Being Critiqued
Before you send your manuscript to an agent, it is important that you allow others to read and critique your story.And by others, I don’t mean your mother, your spouse or anyone else who loves you and...
View ArticleSo You Want To Write A Series
Now that it's November, my fourth book in the "Brides of Simpson Creek" series for Love Inspired Historicals, The Rancher's Courtship, has hit the shelves. It's made me stop and reflect about how I...
View ArticleNew Release: The Rancher's Courtship by Laurie Kingery
The agency is thrilled to announce that The Rancher's Courtship by Laurie Kingery is available on bookshelves today. Kingery's latest novel is the fourth installment in the popular Love Inspired...
View ArticleNew Release: Tall, Dark and Cowboy by Joanne Kennedy
November is flush with new books by Elaine English authors! Hot off the shelf, Joanne Kennedy's latest sexy Western is sure to put some sizzle in your chilly Fall evenings:Stunned by the discovery that...
View ArticleNew Release: Love's Paradise by Celeste O. Norfleet
The agency is excited to announce another new release for November: Celeste O. Norfleet's newest romance, Love's Paradise:In a dazzling new novel in the Mamma Lou series, matchmaker Louise Gates helps...
View ArticleCharacters
I am sure this topic has been discussed in previous blog posts, but it is so important it deserves being touched upon again. There may be nothing that can make or break a novel as much as the...
View ArticleGreat Advice on Self-Publishing
Whether an author should self-publish, how to do it, how to succeed if you try -- these are all the questions buzzing around the publishing biz these days. Some authors seem to feel that traditional,...
View ArticleHappy Holidays!
'Tis the marvelous season for gift giving, parties, joy, and wonder.It's also the season, as we approach the end of the year, for rest and reflection. All of us in the publishing biz have been buffeted...
View ArticleBeginnings
A month into a new year seems as good a time as any to discuss something very important to a story: the beginning. It is difficult to get invested in reading something if it cannot capture you from...
View ArticleNew Books
This month brings several new books from our authors. We'll highlight one today.Last Chance Beauty Queen by Hope Ramsay continues the adventures of the townsfolk of Last Chance where the Cut n' Curl...
View ArticleNew Release: Sex, Lies and Valentines by Tawny Weber
The agency is excited to announce another new release: Tawny Weber is back with her latest for Harlequin Blaze, Sex, Lies and Valentines!Con artist Gabriel Black just got busted. By a babe....
View ArticleIf you Love books
It is so very easy in this business to get swamped by the day-to-day minutiae. Reading queries, partials, fulls. Researching the market. Talking with editors. Making and following-up on submissions....
View ArticleNew Release: Download Drama by Celeste O. Norfleet
Instant fame. Instant drama.Some people stand back when problems crop up. Kenisha Lewis steps up. And there's a lot that needs fixing, from her family's money worries to the run-down dance studio where...
View ArticlePoint of View.
One of the most important choices you have to make early on in developing your manuscript is who is telling the story. Is there a specific character narrating everything with only knowledge of...
View ArticleIt's time to help others
May is the month for best-selling author Brenda Novak's extraordinary on-line auction that benefits juvenile diabetes. If you haven't checked it out before, this is the year you should do so....
View ArticleBeginning in the Middle
Lately, we’ve gotten a lot of submissions that could use to begin in the middle. The submissions are interesting, well written, and, ultimately, enjoyable. But before we can get to the interesting...
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