<![CDATA[AutoCrit Writing Center: Writing Advice - Articles - Writing Query Letters]]> https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher en-us N/A nina@ninadavies.com Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:16:57 CST 20 <![CDATA[The Busy Author’s Guide to Writing Blurbs: A Step by Step Manual Part 3]]> https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/163/1/The-Busy-Authors-Guide-to-Writing-Blurbs-A-Step-by-Step-Manual-Part-3/Page1.html It’s no coincidence the word sounds a lot like “blerg” and reminds me of the same sound you make when throwing up. Six letters: b-l-u-r-b-s that can send the most stoic writer racing for the safe comfort of a dark, quiet corner. Goodness knows, just the thought of having to write one makes me want to crawl under the desk and stuff chocolate like an unhinged chipmunk

After months of research (by which I mean drank a lot, read a lot, and found a myriad of ways I could convince my husband that chocolate was a food group, and worthy of being a breakfast meal), I realized really good blurbs have a formula…of sorts. Sorry, guys, no easy answers, but thankfully, there are some cheat sheets.

Here is part 3...

]]> no@spam.com (Bronwyn Storm) https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/163/1/The-Busy-Authors-Guide-to-Writing-Blurbs-A-Step-by-Step-Manual-Part-3/Page1.html <![CDATA[The Busy Author’s Guide to Writing Blurbs: A Step by Step Manual Part 2]]> https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/162/1/The-Busy-Authors-Guide-to-Writing-Blurbs--A-Step-by-Step-Manual-Part-2/Page1.html It’s no coincidence the word sounds a lot like “blerg” and reminds me of the same sound you make when throwing up. Six letters: b-l-u-r-b-s that can send the most stoic writer racing for the safe comfort of a dark, quiet corner. Goodness knows, just the thought of having to write one makes me want to crawl under the desk and stuff chocolate like an unhinged chipmunk

>After months of research (by which I mean drank a lot, read a lot, and found a myriad of ways I could convince my husband that chocolate was a food group, and worthy of being a breakfast meal), I realized really good blurbs have a formula…of sorts. Sorry, guys, no easy answers, but thankfully, there are some cheat sheets.

Here is part 2...

]]> no@spam.com (Bronwyn Storm) https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/162/1/The-Busy-Authors-Guide-to-Writing-Blurbs--A-Step-by-Step-Manual-Part-2/Page1.html <![CDATA[The Busy Author’s Guide to Writing Blurbs: A Step by Step Manual Part 1]]> https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/161/1/The-Busy-Authors-Guide-to-Writing-Blurbs-A-Step-by-Step-Manual-Part-1/Page1.html It’s no coincidence the word sounds a lot like “blerg” and reminds me of the same sound you make when throwing up.  Six letters: b-l-u-r-b-s that can send the most stoic writer racing for the safe comfort of a dark, quiet corner. Goodness knows, just the thought of having to write one makes me want to crawl under the desk and stuff chocolate like an unhinged chipmunk

After months of research (by which I mean drank a lot, read a lot, and found a myriad of ways I could convince my husband that chocolate was a food group, and worthy of being a breakfast meal), I realized really good blurbs have a formula…of sorts. Sorry, guys, no easy answers, but thankfully, there are some cheat sheets.

Here is part 1 of my guide to writing blurbs.

]]> no@spam.com (Bronwyn Storm) https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/161/1/The-Busy-Authors-Guide-to-Writing-Blurbs-A-Step-by-Step-Manual-Part-1/Page1.html <![CDATA[Query's Blessing, Query's Curse]]> https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/160/1/Querys-Blessing-Querys-Curse/Page1.html Thank God for writing companions.  At a meeting one night, they uttered the words that both saved my soul and cursed it: “Query letters,” they said, with sage nods. “That’s how you apply to publishing houses.”

 “Ah, okay…what’s in a query letter?”

]]> no@spam.com (Bronwyn Storm) https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/160/1/Querys-Blessing-Querys-Curse/Page1.html <![CDATA[How To Write The Perfect Query Letter]]> https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/32/1/How-To-Write-The-Perfect-Query-Letter/Page1.html ]]> no@spam.com (Gina Ardito) https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/32/1/How-To-Write-The-Perfect-Query-Letter/Page1.html