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Mmmm. I think a little description is important, but only in the sense of a little personality to begin with. If you are too strict with the sketch and description ...

Starbucks is kind of a different story, though. I don't know what the origin of the name is, but there are basically two choice's: assuming it's a name, the persons ...

I THINK it's correct, because I suppose technically the digest belongs to the writers so an apostrophe would be appropriate in 'Writer's'. Whereas with use we are a society OF ...

Hmph. What I'm finding with the book is it's really good at telling me what to do with my manuscript, and says nothing with query letters--which was the main purpose ...

Thanks! I did stop by borders today and pick up a book called "How To Write and Illustrate Children's Books and Get Them Published" so I'm hoping it will help?

Well since it's a children's picture book, a few of the agents want me to send my entire manuscript within the query doing one at a time is not the ...

Awesome, I'll have to go to the book store and look for a book like that. Another question though...what happens if when I send out my query letters to many ...

Haha I will. Right now I'm trying to decide about the query letter--because it's a children's book and it isn't ridiculously long, so the synopsis really doesn't need an entire ...

Thank you so much! You have been ridiculously helpful!

What do you write in your query letter normally? Like, what kind of info? What's the purpose?

Cool. So how do I go about getting an agent? Do I just email them like "Yo dawg, u wanna b my agent homie?" (Mm I like being dramatic) or ...

Agent....I must pay this agent, right? How does that work?

To date, I have never once attempted to get anything professionally published--I just write for fun, I write for me, and I write for YWS (because you know you are ...

I don't think this is the proper place for this....perhaps Character Development would be better? But, I can't move things here...*awaits a mod for this thread*

Yes, that is true. But if you prefer something in writing you can post your poems on 'poetry.com' and they are instantly copyrighted as well as entered into a mass ...