Nicola Morgan is one of the authors who has agreed to run a workshop at Write Now 2012 on the 9th of March (the 'skills' day). If you aren't familiar with her work and her very direct way of telling writers like it is, have a look at this:
http://helpineedapublisher.blogspot.com/2011/12/crabbits-tips-for-writers-4-publishing.html
It is her fourth blog post on an aspect of publication (this time self-publication) in a series on her blog, 'Help I Need A Publisher'.
Have a look, then go sign up, people, for her workshop at Write Now on 9/3/12; see http://writenowglasgow.blogspot.com/2011/11/few-changes-to-write-now-conference.html for details.
Register here and enjoy an earl-bird discount before it flies away: http://onlineshop.strath.ac.uk/
Help - a very important correction to that: Query Shark is NOT my site! Nothing to do with me at all. I do not ever put people's queries on my site unless they ask me to. I have a consultancy which writers can use but it is 100% confidential.
ReplyDeletePlease note that Query Shark does not ever put people's queries on her site unless they ask her to either. It's 100% volunteer, 100% anonymous, and if someone later wants theirs taken offline she'll do that too. Immediately. You really ought to make this clear.
ReplyDeleteThe agent who runs Query Shark emphasizes that it is not a submission pool. It's a critique exercise only, with a view to improving queries so they fare better out in the real world. Repeat: The only way to get assessed on QS is if you deliberately request it.
I'm sure it was not intentional, but your wording implies that Query Shark holds work up for scrutiny without the writer's permission. This is unfair and needs to be corrected. (I have no personal connection to that site or agent, by the way.) With thanks -