https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher en-us N/A nina@ninadavies.com Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:32:18 CST 20 https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/108/1/Genre-Hopping-Your-Way-Out-Of-The-Midlist/Page1.html no@spam.com (Roxanne St Claire) https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/108/1/Genre-Hopping-Your-Way-Out-Of-The-Midlist/Page1.html https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/107/1/Unraveling-The-Complexities-of-Romantic-Suspense/Page1.html Romantic suspense is one of the hottest subgenres in the market today and shows no sign of slowing. The subgenre is broad and encompasses a lot of different styles of writing, and one of the first questions that new writers ask is what exactly qualifies as ‘romantic suspense?’

]]> no@spam.com (Roxanne St Claire) https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/107/1/Unraveling-The-Complexities-of-Romantic-Suspense/Page1.html https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/106/1/Winning-The-Lottery-Or-Selling-Straight-to-Single-Title-As-An-Unpublished-Author/Page1.html Recently, the Florida lotto was $85 million dollars. Did I buy a ticket? Yep. Ten of ‘em. Did I win? Nope. But someone did - someone who bought the ticket in the same town where I bought mine. A quick pick, no less. So close, I could almost smell the leather interior of my brand new Porsche, see how sharp my Manolo Blahniks would look leaning on the accelerator, hear the engines of my private jet revving up for a trip to Cannes. Did I mention the gorgeous pilot? All right. You get the idea. Somebody won. In my tiny burg of 6,000. How do you get that lucky?

I know this feeling of envy and awe. I’ve had it before.]]> no@spam.com (Roxanne St Claire) https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/106/1/Winning-The-Lottery-Or-Selling-Straight-to-Single-Title-As-An-Unpublished-Author/Page1.html https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/105/1/File-It-Under-H-Heartbreak-Hope-and-the-Holy-Grail-of-Publishing/Page1.html Something sent me to my old file drawer today; I was looking for an address of an agent for a friend, and I knew I’d queried that agent in the past. In my files, I pulled out a dog-eared, overstuffed, tear-stained file folder.

I remember creating that file, when I sent out my initial three agent queries for my first manuscript. I’m a fairly organized person, but for some reason I didn’t take the time to type out a label. This file folder bears one Sharpie-squiggled word on the tab: QUERIES.

And in it, I shoved a heck of a lot of heartbreak. But that’s not all that’s in that folder. There’s something else between those tattered edges. Something magical, something elusive, something that begs to be shared.]]> no@spam.com (Roxanne St Claire) https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/105/1/File-It-Under-H-Heartbreak-Hope-and-the-Holy-Grail-of-Publishing/Page1.html