How to write a query letter
The three paragraphs that matter, what agents skip, and the comparison titles that help rather than hurt.
Guides
Publishing resources
Plain-language guides to the parts of publishing that nobody explains: querying, contracts, rights and the slow work of finding readers.
Reading your contract
Advances, royalty splits, rights reversion and the clauses worth negotiating before you sign.
Submission etiquette
Simultaneous submissions, withdrawal notes, follow-up timing and how to take a rejection usefully.
Building a readership slowly
Newsletters, local events and bookshop relationships — the work that compounds over years.
Preparing a manuscript
Formatting, front matter, word-count expectations by genre, and a final self-edit checklist.
Working with an editor
What developmental, line and copy edits actually cover, and what a fair rate looks like.