Randy Susan Meyers

Writing

When Marketing Can Be Too Much

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Guest Post by Robin Black (originally published in Beyond The Margins) It’s almost New Year’s resolution time.  I have a few this year.  All the usual ones about less food, more exercise, of course; a new one about buying only cruelty-free meat and poultry; and I am resolving this year to try to keep at … Read more

Advice From My Agent (On Querying Her)

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Want to make a writer shudder? Ask them if they’ve queried yet. Last year I led a workshop on The Great American Query Letter and the participants shuffled in with the reluctance (not to say dread) of women about to try on bathing suits in an open-corral fitting room.

A co-ed one.

But like a job interview, you can’t get around the query. You have to write it. Many times. Because your query won’t be good enough on your first, second, or third draft—this is an iterative process requiring many cranky hours. But if you’re gonna do it, do it right. You’d have to be a damn fool to spend years writing a book and then skimp on the

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Weary of the Query?

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Want to make a writer shudder? Ask them if they’ve queried yet. Recently  I led a workshop on The Great American Query Letter and the participants shuffled in with the reluctance (not to say dread) of women about to try on bathing suits in an open-corral fitting room. A co-ed one. But like a job … Read more

Countdown to Publication: Day 36, Behind the Scenes of Extreme Narcissism

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  SHE WRITES, a terrific site for women writers, asked if I’d like to be included in the group of writers they’ve invited to participate in writing a “Countdown to Publication” blog. Well, let me tell you this: having a debut novel launch includes many tasks—some Sisyphean, some plain fun, and all feeding into the … Read more