Nathan Bransford brings us up to date on how to make our book projects appear as professional as possible to lit agents, publishers, and even editors. As far as this TVWriter™ minion is concerned, this article is pure gold.
by Nathan Bransford
Proper formatting is by far the easiest thing you can do to make your book project appear as professional as possible to literary agents and the various professionals you will work with throughout the publication process.
Even if current technology isn’t destroying science fiction, it’s certainly eliciting a lot of unintended smiles. But just between us, we think the best of the s-f published and produced for TV and radio is holding up pretty well. Or is it?
People have used fiction to escape the mundane world they live their daily lives in since the dawn of time. Unfortunately, due to relatively recent technological strides, things that would have seemed fantastical or impossible a few decades ago may now be on par with something you have lying on your coffee table.
Speaking of newspaper headlines, LATimes.Com this morning demonstrates the difference between the Big Orange and the Big Apple with a timely article about smoking weed during the pandemic.
The article is long and descriptive, but the first four words of the headline, which I have cleverly hidden until now, tell us everything we need to know:
Did you read that headline, gang? It’s the question of the day over at NYTimes.Com, and the good news is that they also have an answer:
The show’s new audience is also seeing something different in it: a parable about a country in terminal decline.
Take a good look at that second to last word. “Terminal.”
NOTE FROM LB: I think he’s just trying to make us jealous…and succeeding with me!
In a secret, magic garden with the lovely, legendary actress (and one of my teen crushes) Juliet Mills, star of TV’s classic “Nanny and the Professor” series as well as much, much more:
