QueryTracker: A Must Tool for Querying Agents If you’re an author or illustrator and would like a literary agent to represent your work, there’s a fantastic software program that will really help you zero in on the right agents to approach. Five years ago when I was querying my second novel, The Stream, I wish […]
Author Archives: A. R. Silverberry
Reading for Writers
June 17, 2019 – 1:33 am
Reading for Writers To improve your writing, pretty much everyone agrees that you should write a lot and read lot. Some people maintain that you should read both good writing and bad writing. The argument for the latter is that it will help you recognize what doesn’t work. The premise goes that if you can […]
Creativity: Supercharge Your Writing, Part II.
May 21, 2019 – 7:19 pm
Supercharge your creativity. Last week, I outlined nine ways to enhance your creativity and supercharge your writing. Today I offer three more ideas. As you’ll see, they work synergistically to help you. Trigger Your Creativity Just as day follows night, you can trigger your creativity using a learning procedure called classical conditioning. Remember Pavlov and […]
Creativity: Supercharge Your Writing, Part I
May 14, 2019 – 12:23 am
Creativity: Supercharge Your Writing, Part I Many years ago I had the good fortune to attend a number of workshops designed to increase creativity. My father taught two of them, and one was with Sidney Parnes, one of the founders of the Creative Problem Solving Institute in Buffalo New York. Through their influence and my […]
Query Rejection: What Now?
May 4, 2019 – 11:04 pm
Query Rejection: What Now? You’ve worked hard on your manuscript, writing and rewriting, submitting it to beta readers, then polishing it some more. You’re editor has given it several passes. The manuscript is as good as you can get it, and now you’re ready to try to find an agent. You send out query letters […]
Call of Elespen: Keepers of the Wellsprings
December 7, 2017 – 4:05 pm
Announcing Call of Elespen, the Epic Conclusion to the Keepers of the Wellsprings Series! Exciting news! Missy Sheldrake has released Call of Elespen, the fifth and epic conclusion to the Keepers of the Wellsprings series. Synopsis: A vindictive Sorcerer King with a century-old grudge has spent decades gathering an army obsessed with claiming […]
The Illuminated Kingdom, by Alina Sayre
November 16, 2017 – 9:54 pm
The Illuminated Kingdom: The Voyages of the Legend, Book 4 The Illuminated Kingdom, book four of fantasy author Alina Sayre’s masterful series, The Voyages of the Legend, is out! You can win a copy, just see rules below. Meanwhile, more about this middle grade fantasy! Synopsis: The Vestigia Roi has risen up to retake their home […]
Coiled Blog Tour
June 11, 2017 – 11:17 pm
Book marketing is an art, and few understand it or bring more creative energy and imagination to the enterprise than fantasy author, H. L Burke. So when she offered to do a guest a post, I jumped at the chance for her to share a few words on the subject. H. L. is on the […]
