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#PitMad: Your Quick Ticket to Pub

By Michael Shymanski

November 23, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

#PitMad: Your Quick Ticket to Pub

For many new writers, the question is how to break in, get an agent, and get published. Authors can go many months—which can compound to years—without hearing about their manuscripts. How can a writer get noticed and noticed fast? How do you break in without connections? Like with all contemporary remedies, the internet has a hand in getting new authors noticed, and #PitMad is the quarterly Twitter event to get your manuscript picked up and published.

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Social Media Tagged With: hashtag, manuscript, pitch, proposal, query, Social Media, twitter

Proposals: The Difference Between Fiction and Nonfiction

By Kimberley Scofield

April 27, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Proposals: The Difference Between Fiction and Nonfiction

Writing book proposals can seem intimidating. Writing the book was hard enough, and now you have to get other people to like it too. The number of resources for writing query letters is infinite, with published authors, agents, and publishers all weighing in on what makes a good query letter. But what about the next step—the proposal package?

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: Acquisitions, agents, book proposals, fiction, nonfiction, pitches, proposal, publishing, query, Query letter, Titles

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