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June 25, 2023 By Anne R. Allen 22 Comments

How to Quick Pitch Your Book in a DoorDash World

How to Quick Pitch Your Book in a DoorDash World

by Ruth Harris The Tyranny Of The Time Stamp. We all live under the lash of the digital clock and the tyranny of the time stamp. It’s not just us, it’s everyone everywhere — Fast food and even faster fashion. Pro chess players have 2 minutes to make their moves. On each move 12 seconds […]

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Filed Under: Social Media and Marketing For Writers, The Publishing Business Tagged With: Elevator pitch, From East Hampton With Love, logline, Ruth Harris

January 19, 2020 By Anne R. Allen 46 Comments

How to Write a Professional, Not-Embarrassing Query to an Agent, Reviewer, Editor, or Blogger

How to Write a Professional, Not-Embarrassing Query to an Agent, Reviewer, Editor, or Blogger

Don’t embarrass yourself with a clueless query. by Anne R. Allen I don’t know why, but I’ve recently been hit with a barrage of requests from new writers who want me to critique their query letters. Most of them come from LinkedIn, which I’ve happily ignored for years, but for some reason I’m suddenly getting […]

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Filed Under: The Publishing Business Tagged With: agent query, Elevator pitch, How to Be a Writer in the E-Age, How to query a book blogger, how to write a query, Jane Friedman, logline, Nathan Bransford, Query Shark

December 8, 2013 By Anne R. Allen 34 Comments

The Secret to Writing the Dreaded Synopsis…and its Little Friends: the Hook, Logline, and Pitch

The Secret to Writing the Dreaded Synopsis…and its Little Friends: the Hook, Logline, and Pitch

by Anne R. Allen If you “won” at NaNo, and you’re madly editing that manuscript, you’re probably thinking about how you’re going to go about sending it into the marketplace.Or you may have spent years working on a manuscript and one of your New Year’s resolutions will be to get it published.Whether you’re going to […]

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November 11, 2012 By Anne R. Allen 36 Comments

The Biggest Problem Facing the Beginning Novelist—And 6 Tips for Avoiding It

The Biggest Problem Facing the Beginning Novelist—And  6 Tips for Avoiding It

 by Anne R. Allen   Creating compelling narrative takes more than great characters, sparkling dialogue and exciting action.  All those elements have to come together in one story. One story. Not a series of episodes. As creatures of the television era, a lot of us tend to think in episodes rather than one long story […]

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Anne R. AllenAnne R. Allen writes funny mysteries and how-to-books for writers. She also writes poetry and short stories on occasion. She’s a contributor to Writer’s Digest and the Novel and Short Story Writer’s Market.

Her bestselling Camilla Randall Mystery Series features perennially down-on-her-luck former socialite Camilla Randall—who is a magnet for murder, mayhem and Mr. Wrong, but always solves the mystery in her quirky, but oh-so-polite way.

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