THE LORE of the SUPERNATURAL

Some folk call them "fairies" others call them "wights". Whatever you name them, it is useful to be armed with knowledge of their ways, if you intend to venture into the countryside of the British Isles or the fantastic world called Aia. Fortunately, over the course of human history this information has been thoroughly catalogued.

Wight Lore:

Seelie wights are those who wish mortals well, and even give them supernatural help, or who merely use them as targets for their harmless mischief. The intent of unseelie wights, however, is to harm humankind.

Although they can ...

Sending in a Query Letter to a Potential
Publisher
Lillian Cauldwell

You’ve prepared your manuscript to be the best it possibly is. You’ve had "beta readers" take it apart, critique it, and help you "vet" it. You have made the spelling perfect (and don’t count on your computers’ spell checker, it lies) as well as checking the continuity, grammar. ...

On January 1, 2002 I had finally finished authoring my latest fiction book, which is titled The Great Teen Fruit War, A 1960’ Novel. The work was quite a Promethean task to complete, having 162,000 words on 468 pages presented in 46 Chapters. When I read my final draft, I think I felt a little like Victor Frankenstein must have when he first fully viewed the ...

Attitude. Its a simple word, but to me, it heralds so many possible problems in writing.

Attitude. What do people mean by it? In many cases, a variety of different things that are pretty confusing to a writer. ...

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I've been working on and off on a novel for what must a year now and it has now, finally, reached the stage where it can be considered near complete. The end needs some work (mainly because I've had to chop the story in two due to its length) and there are one or two bits I'm not 100% happy with. (I never am though.. But all in all, I have a servicible manuscript.

When I first started writing, 6 or 7 years ago, my next step would have been to make up a query letter, print out a few sample chapters and send it off to every publisher I could find who published work in my genre. NOT a good idea.

A better idea is to find a literary agent (prefferably agents) and submit to ...