Get Answers from A Writer's Writer

Where do you turn to find answers to your questions as a writer? You can gain some insight at a writer's conference or possibly from reading an article or a how-to-write book. But where do you get answers for situation and your burning questions?

Next Tuesday, January 29th I'm going to be asking your questions to bestselling author Jerry B. Jenkins. He is the author of more than 170 books with sales of more than 70 million copies including the bestselling Left Behind series, is the chairman of the board of trustees for the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. His writing has appeared in Time, Reader’s Digest, Guideposts, Parade and dozens of Christian periodicals. Twenty of his books have reached the New York Times Best Seller List (seven of them debuting at number one). Jerry also owns the Christian Writers Guild.

Jerry is the author of the 2013 Christian Writer's Market Guide which for more than 25 years, has been the most comprehensive and highly recommended resource on the market for Christian writers, agents, editors, publishers, publicists, and writing teachers. In addition to providing a wealth of ideas and tips for publishing in the Christian industry, the 2013 Christian Writer's Market Guide also includes up-to-date information on more than 160 book publishers, more than 140 periodicals, and hundreds of agents, contests, conferences, editorial services, niche markets, self-publishing services, and more. This is the ultimate reference tool for Christian writers.

I have convinced Jerry B. Jenkins to grill him during a LIVE 70-minute telewebcast on Tuesday, January 29th!

* * * Here's My Small Request * * *

Rather than have the "content" come out of my head (or Jerry's head) for the January 29, 2013 telewebcast at 4 p.m. PDT / 7:00 p.m. EDT, I have decided to let you ask Jerry a question. 

Sound fair?

So, if you could ask Jerry ANY question you wanted about writing or marketing for the Christian writer, what would your question be?

Here's your chance to ask Jerry directly and get registered for the call on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 (starts promptly according to www.Time.gov).


Click the link below:

http://www.askjerryjenkins.com


* * * Get FREE chapter on What to Write from Jerry's book "Writing for the Soul" * * *

You will receive a full chapter from "Writing for The Soul." It's FREE if you ask a question and register for this telewebcast.

Click the link below:

http://www.askjerryjenkins.com

After your question gets submitted, you'll find out how to get phone access and webcast access to Jerry B. Jenkins and I for the LIVE telewebcast, January 29, 2013.

If you can't make the time of the call, please go ahead and sign up anyway. The entire teleseminar will be recorded and EVERYONE who signs up will receive an email with the replay link. Also if you sign up, you will be able to download the FREE Ebook, What To Write from Writing for The Soul right away.

Window Into Attractions For Editors

What are you looking for?

It's a question that I am asked often in my role as a literary agent. From years in this business, I have a cagey response, "Good stuff."

I can see the follow-up question coming before they even formulate it, "And what is 'good stuff?'"

"I'll know it when I see it."

While no one likes to talk about it much, publishing is subjective. Yes there is a standard for professionalism and storytelling but when the basic requirements are there, then it's a matter of personal taste and which projects attract you. As I shop the projects for my agency clients, I'm trying to send the right project to the right editor at the right publishing house at the right time. There are lots of "rights" in that sentence and it's intentional. The search is on to find your champion within the publishing house who loves your work and will convince others that your book needs to get into the marketplace and in the hands of readers. This search is complex.

Yesterday's Publishers Lunch included an article about a new program from the Association of American Publishers. It's free and here's more of the details: The AAA will start a "pilot program" of web casts featuring editors pitching Winter 2009 books to an intended online audience of booksellers media, beginning in September. For two weeks, two editors per day (on select days) will present "upcoming titles that have inspired them" in live 30-minute web casts. Media and booksellers can call in and ask questions. Starting September 16, the schedule features: Rebecca Sale tan from Houghton Miff Lin Harcourt; Tom Miller from Wiley; Bill Thomas from Doubleday; Geoff Chandler from Little, Brown; Cindy Spiegel from Spiegel & Frau; Amy Einhorn from Putnam; George Witte from St. Martin's; Eric Raab from Tor/Forge; Gillian Blake from Collins; Helen Atsma from Holt; Chuck Adams from Algonquin; and Deb Futter from Grand Central. You register for the webcasts at http://publishers.webex.com/

If you don't recognize any of these general market names, you should because they are some of the key decision makers at large publishing houses. For example, Amy Einhorn is the publisher at Amy Einhorn Books (one of the Putnam imprints). If you research the other names here, you will find other significant details.

These leaders in the publishing community will be talking about forthcoming books which inspired them. That's code for telling you what topics and books attracted them enough to contract the book and champion it internally within their publishing house. It looks like valuable insight to me so I've signed up for some of these events and put them on my September schedule. You can do the same--for free.