We are now officially one month into 2010 (where did January go?)—the time to resurrect your writing projects. You haven’t forgotten your New Year’s resolutions already, have you?

So, if you are in need of a manuscript critique, copy edit, agent/publishing advice, etc, feel free to contact me. For the past 5 years, I have been helping dozens of writers (from all over the country) improve their manuscripts, find agents and get their work published. Check out my web site for more details and comments from past & current clients: http://www.chrysaliseditorial.com

I also offer coaching and ghostwriting services. Or, if you’ve already got a perfect manuscript ready to submit, I provide book proposal support and agent/publishing advice. A client of mine, Tobias Lanz, recently published his book The Life and Fate of the Indian Tiger—it is now available on Amazon! (Check out the book trailer I produced with the assistance of my 14 year old nephew!)

If you are not looking for editorial advice at the moment, but are sending off short stories and creative non-fiction pieces to literary magazines, you might want to check out my LITERARY MAGAZINE MAILING LABELS. For $10/month, you will receive 15 mailing labels addressed to the fiction editors of reputable literary magazines, to save you the time & hassle of checking addresses and editors’ names.

Once you have been a client of mine, in whatever capacity, and your work is published, please let me know and I’ll help you promote your book on my blog! (You write the copy!)

Even if you do not use my services, I encourage you to keep writing, (perseverance furthers!) and wish you all the best in your endeavors!

You’ve done it! You’ve finished your novel/memoir/screen play/etc, etc, etc. Finally, the hard work is over. All you have to do is send it out to agents or publishers. Easy, right?

Well, if you haven’t already discovered the truth, let me enlighten you: sending your manuscript out to agents and publishers is no small task. First, you have to cull a list of agents and publishers that are interested in the book you’ve written. Then, you have to collect not only the addresses of these agents and publishers, but also the relevant editors (because no one likes an informal query letter). Then, assuming you’ve already got the “perfect” query letter written, you have to change the addresses and names on each of your letters, and email/mail the letters one by one.

While you may not find these tasks as mentally draining as writing the actual book, they are certainly less fun, and can take days–valuable days you could be spending (dare I say it?)…writing your next book . Slogging through such busy-work can deter even the most talented writers from getting an agent, and moving their manuscript from their desk into the hands of a publisher.

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