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No.2: Let’s talk about you In my experience the part of the covering letter that varies the most is the section that falls under our umbrella request to ‘include a bit about you’. I have received...
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SAE – Dictionary Corner – Publishing Terms Translated
Have you ever spoken to someone in publishing or browsed the submission portion of an agency’s website and wondered what on earth we’re all talking about? Well, wonder no more. Here in Dictionary...
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No.3: The Elevator Pitch Do you ever watch Dragons’ Den? I hope you do because it is going to feature quite heavily as my main analogy this week. Imagine that your book is a product which you are going...
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Dictionary Corner – Publishing Terms Translated
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No. 4: To Whom It May Concern Everyone who has ever been on the internet has Googled their own name. Bands and stand-up comedians alike know that they will get a big response if they simply shout out...
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No.5: takemeseriously@sillybilly.co.uk Today I would like to share a story about something that happened to one of my closest friends. We’ll call her Ellen, because that is her name. When Ellen was a...
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Literary Agency – Dictionary Corner – Publishing Terms Translated
Have you ever spoken to someone in publishing or browsed the submission portion of an agency’s website and wondered what on earth we’re all talking about? Well, wonder no more. Here in Dictionary...
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No. 6: There are plenty more clichés in the sea Clichés exist for a reason. Because they generally work. They usually make a good point and/or have been borrowed from Shakespeare. And they don’t really...
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No.7: Pobody’s Nerfect I’m just going to come out and say it. I am not a fan of grammar bullies. In my opinion, picking on someone for a brief grammatical slip or a badly placed apostrophe is not big...
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No.8: My name is Bob, but you can call me B S Goodwriter Did anyone else notice that lots of people’s names changed, at least for a little while, once they left school? After our last long summer...
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No.9: Never judge a book by its Amazon review Whenever I want to know anything about anything I look it up on Wikipedia. I love Wikipedia. I could spend hours on there clicking from page to page....
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No.10: Be helpful The thing that I feel compelled to start off by moaning about today isn’t directly linked to covering letters but it is very close to them, too often it is pressed right up against...
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11 Ways Not To Start Your Novel – No. 1
Oh hi! How have you been? Crikey, what sort of weather have we been having? And the traffic on the way here? Absolute nightmare. Especially with these petrol prices, don’t even get me started. Still,...
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11 Ways Not To Start Your Novel – No. 2
With Your Protagonist Looking Into a Mirror The other day as I stared at my reflection in the bathroom mirror of my north London flat I recalled that my hair is fine and dyed a darker brunette then it...
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11 Ways Not To Start Your Novel – No. 3
With a Description of the Moon Quick! Pick a card, any card. Now think of a number between 1 and 10. Next think of a colour. And a vegetable. Got them all? OK? Carrot, red, 7 and either the Ace of...
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11 Ways Not To Start Your Novel – No. 4
With Onomatopoeia EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOW KER-SPLAT! I’m really sorry to have to tell you but that is the sound of a literary agent’s expectations plummeting at the sight of onomatopoeia in the first few...
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Getting Into Publishing – Vicki Le Feuvre Agency Editor
What do you do with a BA in English? What is my life going to be? Four years of college And plenty of knowledge Have earned me this useless degree. Opening lines of Avenue Q As I sat in the Noël...
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11 Ways Not To Start Your Novel – No. 5
By Summarising A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (May 25th 1977 and this one, to be precise) George Lucas used a (by no means new) technique called an opening crawl at the start of a little...
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11 Ways Not To Start Your Novel – No. 6
With Your Protagonist Waking Up The submission sits in front of me on the desk. I’ve read this scene about a hundred times before and here it is again. I’ll probably read it at least three more times...
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We’re Back!
Welcome back to the Darley Anderson blog after our summer/Frankfurt Book Fair break. Did you miss us? We missed you. Hope you’ve all had a brilliant time in the sun reading only great stories and that...
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