Today’s guest post is by author and writing mentor Lisa Tener:
Over ten years ago, I attended a writers’ conference where, while waiting in line to pitch to agents, I stood with several writers who lamented that it was “impossible to land an agent” and that the cards were stacked against new authors who wanted to get a book deal. I knew they were wrong because I’d landed a book deal—with far less expertise in writing or in the subject of my book than they had in theirs. They just hadn’t bothered to learn “The Rules,” or practiced them and believed they’d work.
In that decade, both everything and nothing have changed. Continue Reading…
