Part Two of Self Editing deals with the opening of your book, or ‘The Hook’. What I am referring to here is the way that you intend to grab your reader’s attention, and hopefully, later, keep it. Sometimes, a hook is associated with the trope used in the book – this is common in category …
Tag Archive: Nancy Cassidy
Aug 21
Accepting Submissions For Etopia Press
As a new acquisitions editor at Etopia Press I spend a bit of time in the Slush Pile (I know – I hate that term too, I will have to put some time into thinking up a new name I do like for the many, many unsolicited submissions a press receives), looking for just the …
Aug 01
Freelance Editors and Publishing Houses
Recently, I joined the ranks of Etopia Press – an up and coming publisher in romance and YA – as an acquisitions editor. I am loving them already, and I really think they are going places. But here’s the thing, and I have put a warning in a couple of places on my website about it …
