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Archive for May, 2010

Grammar Guidelines from Kristina

Posted by Mark Shaw on May 31, 2010

Hey, Hemingwaywantabes, I have discovered some great grammar guidelines provided by a terrific proofreader/editor named Kristina (www.ParagonProofreading.com). Here is the link. Take a look and learn since without proper grammar, your writings will fall on deaf ears when they are submitted to literary agents and publishers. That’s no good especially when you have a terrific story to tell. So heed Kristina’s advice. It will be well worth it.

Here’s the link: http://www.grammarguidelines.blogspot.com/

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Query Letter Tracking System

Posted by Mark Shaw on May 24, 2010

Hello Hemingwaywantabes. Hope your writing is fruitful and that you are edging toward publication potential in the near future. Never give up – remember, it only takes one literary agent to say “yes,” and one publisher to say “yes.” Keep the faith, your day is coming.

Besides PublishersLunch.com, which I have suggested before as an important tool to help you with your publishing strategy, another side, http://querytracker.net/index.php may also be helpful. Take a look at what the site offers free of charge, a way to track submitted query letters. Scads of literary agents are also listed as well as some publishers and I like the site’s warning, “Never give money to a literary agent.”

Hope this information is helpful. Now go write “one true sentence” as Mr. Hemingway used to say.

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Mark’s Free Book on Publishing Process

Posted by Mark Shaw on May 19, 2010

Hello Hemingwaywantabes. Hope your writing journey is going well.

Many who visit this blog site are most kind with their comments but somehow do not realize that it is possible to download my book, How To Become a Published Author: Idea to Publication, free of charge. Free! Yes, free, that magic word we all love.

To do so, simply download the various chapters posted above this posting. By doing so, you will learn practical information designed to guide your process toward becoming published. And also learn about the evils of subsidy publishing, a dragon is there ever was one.

More information is also available at my website, www.markshawbooks.net. Don’t hesitate let me help you. I love helping aspiring authors.

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