Queries, Qualms, & Quirks asks published authors to share their successful query letter and discuss their journey from first spark to day of publication. Young Adult Author Derek Milman joins Queries, Qualms, & Quirks this week to discuss going from acting to writing, how his brother's bachelor party launched his writing career, meeting agents for … Continue reading QQQ: Young Adult Author Derek Milman and the Last Pre-Pandemic Book Tour

Why I'm Posting This In a conversation with by Disability in Publishing colleagues, I brought up the idea about including the following in my email signature to get their feedback: Accessibility is important to me! If you need any accommodations to make communication more accessible to you, please don't hesitate to ask.  Someone mentioned adding … Continue reading Communication Accessibility Accommodations

In celebration of Juneteenth, Brenda Drake and I are giving away one book each to ten randomly-selected winners! Winners can choose any book by any of these authors: Kellye Garrett Tomi Adeyemi Nikki Dolson Kim Johnson Brittney Morris Melissa Erin Jackson Nicole Glover Roseanne A. Brown Alexa Martin You must enter via the rafflecopter link … Continue reading Book Giveaway in Celebration of Juneteenth!

Due to the generosity of my supporters on patreon, PubTalk Live replays will now be available as a podcast! I started with the first episode and a new episode will be added each day until the entire history is available. (There are currently 8 on there.) After that, each episode's audio will be uploaded within … Continue reading PubTalk Live Replays Available as a Podcast

This is the 2nd in my Pitch Wars stats series. I'm releasing them as I have the time to do categories. See the Middle Grade stats here. Please don’t reproduce this information anywhere else. This work takes a long time so I would appreciate if you would instead link to my post. If you’d like to … Continue reading Young Adult #pitchwars 2019 stats

Hello! Since there seems to still be interest in the Pitch Wars submission stats from the 2019 season, I'll be slowly working on these in the next few weeks and releasing by Category. I did MG first because it's the smallest category, but I'll be working on YA, NA, and Adult soon. Then I might … Continue reading Middle Grade #pitchwars 2019 Stats

If you're entirely unfamiliar with Pitch Wars, please read the info on the PW site first. If you're unaware how I became the 2019 Managing Director of Pitch Wars, there's a post about that here. Pitch Wars mentors are the heart and soul of PW. Without mentors freely giving their time to give a hand-up … Continue reading What We’re Looking for in #PitchWars Mentors

The #pitmad prep post I put up yesterday seemed to be well-received so I thought I'd do a post-#pitmad wrap-up while everything is fresh in my mind. General Thoughts JFC, read the guidelines! And follow them! (I'm probably preaching to the choir here though) While watching the tweets go by, there was a constant stream … Continue reading Post #pitmad Thoughts

As the 2018 Pitch Wars Social Media director, I've overseen a year's worth of #pitmad events. (If you're unfamiliar with #pitmad, it's a quarterly pitch party on Twitter where writers tweet a 280-character pitch for their completed, polished, unpublished manuscripts. Agents and editors make requests by liking/favoriting the tweeted pitch. More info at the link … Continue reading Secrets to #pitmad Success