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How do you write scary books for younger readers that won’t traumatize them?
Guest Post by Eldritch Black My client Eldritch Black’s debut novel for middle grade readers, The Book of Kindly Deaths, debuts today. It’s a scary cross between Neil Gaiman and Lemony Snicket for kids: The title of this article came from a question that was posed to...
O, Allison: A Chat about Successes + Short Stories
Who doesn't love when fantastic things happen to talented people? All of us at Fuse Literary were beside ourselves with excitement when we found out that Allison Alsup, writer of a plethora of fiction, co-writer of last year's The French Quarter Drinking Companion,...
Advice on Querying, Rejection and Writing from Amy Zhang
Yesterday, we celebrated the release of Falling into Place by Amy Zhang (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins). I've had a couple of people ask me how I "found" Amy and some are surprised to learn that she found me--through the query process. You don't need any special...
Submitting Your Full
Last time I wrote a blog post here it was about post-offer etiquette, but today let's back up a little bit. Querying is HARD, and it involves a LOT of waiting. So when you get an email from an agent requesting a full (or a partial, all of this applies to ANYTHING an...
Meows & Musings with Author Nikki McCormack
Welcome to Friday! I'm so pleased to share my chat with Nikki McCormack. Her YA steampunk novel, The Girl and the Clockwork Cat, was released this Tuesday by Entangled Teen and tells the story of a tough female main character named Maeko, who finds adventure and...
Let It…OH GOD!
We're getting some excellent stories for this year's holiday romance/erotica anthology. Submissions are open until September 20th, so check it out and send us something steamy. As a reminder, we love diversity and welcome interracial romances, LGBTQ, non-Christian...
Happy September 1st
It's September 1st, and you know what that means. Okay, well maybe my owl never arrived. But September is still the beginning of the Fall book season and I'm excited. Not only are two books I represented coming out in the next few weeks (Girl and the...
What Do You Expect?
I was having a chat with a writer recently and she asked "what do you expect from your clients?" This is a great question for any writer to ask someone they're considering working with. The most important quality, I think, is professionalism. This can mean anything...
Call for Submissions
We have two gifts for you: Also, we're now accepting submissions for our annual hot holiday anthology. Stories must be: * Holiday-themed steamy romance or erotica. All sub-genres accepted. Write us something to keep us warm on a lonely winter's night. * Ideally...
Breathing New Life into a Bestselling Series
New fantasy phenom, Brian D. Anderson, who I have the honor of representing, has sold more than 150,000 copies of his first self-published epic fantasy series, The Godling Chronicles. His sixth and final book in the series debuts on September 10th. Not content to rest...
