Sunday, November 8, 2009
Blog of the Week: Nathan Bransford!
For those of you that are new to my world, every Sunday I have a new Blog of the Week. There is no particular criteria for my selections. These are blogs I like and that I feel like sharing with all of you. It's completely arbitrary, based on my mood and what's been going on in my week. These could be personal blogs that I just really love, or informative and useful blogs where I learn a little something. I read a lot of blogs, so if you feel a little bit left out, just know that I have been doing this for a few months and there are STILL a ton of blogs I haven't been able to highlight yet. So don't be offended, okay?
Anyways.
In honor of
Every aspiring author should be reading Nathan Bransford. In visiting your blogs, I know there are quite a few of you out there. It doesn't matter if you're writing a novel or a non-fiction book about the history of shopping carts, you really need to be reading Nathan's blog.
I follow several agent/editor/author blogs, but Nathan's has been one of the most helpful I have encountered. He gives practical information about the industry in general, on how to write query letters and which books he thinks we should probably be reading.
Essentially, Nathan has de-mystified the publishing industry for those of us that previously thought it was this big, crazy, scary entity that would be next to impossible to figure out.
From time to time, he has awesome contests, too. My favorite was Be an Agent For a Day, but he also has First Paragraph and First Line contests, too, where participants can win query letter critiques and even a phone conversation and a chance to ask about anything you want.
So, for all of you that are participating in NaNoWriMo, and even those that aren't, peek into Nathan's blog and check it out. I'm sure you'll like what you see.
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