Free Book on Writing!

I love free things. Honestly, I’m a bit of a sucker for anything free. Plus, I love books. Sadly, I often find myself too cheap to stack up the ones I really want.

So what is better than a free book? Nothing in my mind. I used to just about fall down with happiness when my university profs would weed through their personal collection and leave a stack of free books outside their office door. Sigh. Books. Free books.

Anyway, Donald Maas, an agent and writer, is giving away his ebook version of The Career Novelist. A writing book! And it’s free! I’m so pumped! Follow the link above to download your own copy. I’ve also heard that his other books on writing such as Writing the Breakout Novel are great too. Those ones, you have to pay for, but really, I’d pay money for them if the free one helped me out–smart marketing!

Enjoy!

Agent Chat With Joshua Blimes

On Tuesday, October 7th Agent Query will be hosting another agent chat. If you are free at 8pm Mountain time (10pm Eastern), join us. I will be moderating the chat as usual and it should be an informative and great time.

Our guest will be Joshua Blimes, owner of the JABerwocky Literary Agency. Although he’s not looking for romance (or at least not between book covers), his advice will be informative for writers of all genres.

Joshua has been running his own agency for 14 years and has more years of experience int he publishing world than you could shake a stick at. He is very aware of the changes happening in the publishing world and his advice is, “You may be told, and it may even be true, that it’s harder for new authors to break into the business these days. But that can only be true to a limited extent, because everyone needs new authors, and they have to come from somewhere. Established authors stop writing or their sales decline. Some of the new authors launched a year or two ago will turn out now to work. We all need to look out for our tomorrow. But it’s never going to be easy.”

If you want to have the chance to ask an agent a question, join AQ, if you haven’t already–it’s free–and join the chat on Tuesday.

Hope to see you there!