I’m 30k words over the 100k mark, which I’ve heard is the maximum number of words an aspiring author should be querying. 30k. Let it sink: 30,000 words. That’s half of some people’s books. 30k. Yes, my book is a sci-fi story, and yes, my current word count is well within the industry’s standards for…
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Twitter pitch contests
Yesterday was #DVPit day 1, a Twitter pitch event for authors who identify as members of historically marginalized minorities/groups (for more info, visit: http://dvpit.com/rulesguidelines). Twitter is fun (if used “correctly.” Correctly means many things to me. I will talk about that another day). Twitter pitches can be great, but they are invariably terrifying: It’s DIFFICULT…