Managing Query Manager! If you’re querying agents in the hope of representation, you will find a percentage of them now use an online submission form called Query Manager. Heads up, there are a couple of issues you need to be aware of, or you might end up inadvertently harming your chances with an agent. The […]
Author Archives: A. R. Silverberry
Creativity: Supercharge Your Writing, Part II.
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
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?
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
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
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
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 […]
D.E.A.R: DROP EVERYTHING AND READ DAY!
CELEBRATE DEAR: DROP EVERYTHING AND READ DAY! April 10 (12 AM)- April 13 (12 AM), 2017, my friends and I at the Fantasy Sci-Fi Network will be celebrating Drop Everything and Read Day. It’s a wonderful reminder to make reading a priority. That’s why we’re hosting an online author event, book sale, and contest […]