By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills ’Tis the season of the turkey. If you enjoy eating the Thanksgiving bird, then you love the season. If you’re the turkey, well not so much. You’ve probably spent the past year hatching ways to disguise yourself. For the turkey, I commend his ingenuity. For the turkey-writer,…

By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin At every writer’s conference or group of writers, there is buzz around the word “platform.” Editors and literary agents are searching for authors with a platform or a personal connection to their readers. What’s that about? Many authors believe their task is to write an excellent…

By Aaron Gansky @ADGansky I noticed something interesting when I worked as an editor for The Citron Review, the literary journal I founded in 2009. Here’s a quick glimpse of notes I often made to the other editors: Story 1: Sure! But it needs a new title. Story 2: Yes, but it…

By James Hannibal @jamesrhannibal Here we stand on our drop cloth, brushes ready, half-way through the process of touching up your manuscript the way we might touch up a room after painting. Last month, we looked at the first four steps. This month we finish with six more, starting with…

by Alycia W. Morales @AlyciaMorales As we count down the final days until we gather at the Ridgecrest Conference Center for the 2020 BRMCWC, many have had questions about what to expect and how things will work. Not only are there many of you who are new to the conference, there…

by Blythe Daniel @BlytheDaniel Some people think of Jerry Maguire and his fast-acting athleticism as a sports agent and his exchanges with his client who is known to have said: “Show me the money!” Is a literary agent anything like a wheelin’ dealin’ sports agent? We deal with a lot…