Please don’t be fancy. Times New Roman*, 12 pt., double-spaced, 1” margins. Just like college. #pubtip

*Or other bland serif font.

Stop talking about Drumpf in your query letters. #pubtip

Come chat with the #agents of @InklingsAgency! Join us and bring your questions. #querytip #amwriting #amquerying facebook.com/groups/Inkling…

INKLINGS AGENT CHAT! Join us! #amwriting #amediting #writerslife #query #querytip

Thousands of social media contacts are nice. But how many of them represent your target audience? #pubtip

By the time that you identify a trend, chances are that it has already passed you by. Write your own story. #pubtip

Has God called you to write? Get educated. Even the prophets in the Bible had human teachers. #pubtip

Good made us as social beings. Find a community of writers and invite brutal critiques., Then help someone else. #pubtip

If you've self-pubbed a book, best strategy: make 1st book successful, then query agents with new project. Tho not 2nd in a series #querytip

If the book you're querying was self-published, you need to mention that along with sales figures. It's critical info #querytip

Be sure UR email accepts agent responses. Put agents in UR contacts or pre-approve. Agents won't f/u if you don't respond #querytip

Chat rooms and message boards are lousy places to learn about pub'g. Very bad advice in there from inexperienced folk. #pubtip

Preditors & Editors has gone offline, because they finally realized that a huge portion of their info was inaccurate. This is good. #pubtip

When you seek to get published, you've entered a Darwinian jungle where only the fittest survive. No one owes you a thing. #pubtip

If you're writing a book, that makes you a self-employed business owner. Treat it that way. #pubtip

Are you pitching the right agents? If not, don't blame them for saying no. #pubtip

Your target audience is not "women." Keep thinking. #pubtip

Know the customary word count range for your genre. #pubtip

The latest The Write Shadow Times! paper.li/TheWriteShadow… Thanks to @diannmills @timothyearle @JudithGonda #pubtip #amwriting

You think professional editing costs too much? You might never know what you've lost, without it. #pubtip