Category: Writing and Querying

• Querying: Choose Your Family!

  

  If you’re thinking about writing and querying a novel, know that you don’t have to do this alone.

  C.H. Armstrong

  September 16, 2015

  Writing and Querying

  agents, authors, books, editors, facebook, Family, friends, querying, social media, twitter, writing

• Rambling Thoughts: My Querying Experience with Agents and Editors

  

  Today y’all will be blessed with my mindless ramblings!  You can thank me later!  Hahah! Writing a novel and then sending part or all of that novel off into the unknown universe that consists of literary agents and publishing houses is terrifying!  I’ve sent my first child off to college, and it wasn’t nearly as…

  C.H. Armstrong

  September 15, 2015

  Writing and Querying

  agents, appreciation, books, karma, publishing, querying, thanky you, twitter

• PitchWars: My Bio for a YA CONTEMP Mentor!

  My mentor needs to love To Kill a Mockingbird, diverse characters, blended families and the real-life issues of teens

  C.H. Armstrong

  August 11, 2015

  Writing and Querying

  authors, bloggin101, books, brenda drake, editing, ptichwars, querying, writing, ya

• Things are Starting to Get Real!

  Self-confidence: I’ve never lacked for it in the past; so the only cure for the present is to wait and see.

  C.H. Armstrong

  August 6, 2015

  The Edge of Nowhere, Writing and Querying

  anxiety, authors, Blogging101, book reviews, books, Dust Bowl, fear, History, oklahoma, publishing, querying, self-confidence, writing

• His Loss

  Rejection sucks! But in the end, I make a point to remember one important fact: It’s his loss.

  C.H. Armstrong

  August 5, 2015

  Writing and Querying

  agents, authors, Big Hero 6, Blogging101, books, Lorna Landvik, patience, publishing, query, querying, rejection, writing

• The Waiting Game

  Like watching a pot boil, the literary agent is gonna call any quicker if I keep checking my e-mail.

  C.H. Armstrong

  August 4, 2015

  Writing and Querying

  agents, amanda hocking, authors, Blogging101, books, novels, patience, publishing, querying, self publishing, tracey garvis graves, waiting, writing

• When is my book ready to submit?

  Originally posted on editingandgeekery: When I talk to aspiring writers who have never published a novel, I often hear, “how do I know when my book is done?” The true answer is that to an extent, a book is never “done.” Sometimes I look at a published book and think, “we should have done this…

  C.H. Armstrong

  May 26, 2015

  Writing and Querying

• Changes are Coming!

  Sometimes life has a way of grabbing you by the tail and spinning you around in circles.  Sometimes that’s not a good thing, but other times you just hang on and enjoy the ride.  That’s what I’m doing right now…enjoying the  ride. Look for big changes with this blog in the next few weeks.  I…

  C.H. Armstrong

  May 1, 2015

  The Edge of Nowhere, Writing and Querying

  books, querying, writing

• To Each His Own

  Here’s a truth about me:  I’m a prolific reader.  I will read anything, with the possible exception of science fiction; and then I could probably be talked into it if someone strongly recommend it.  I read anything. For years, I refused to leave a book unfinished.  If I started a book, I was committed to…

  C.H. Armstrong

  April 11, 2015

  Writing and Querying

  authors, books, publishing, querying, writing

• Querying: Those Danged Rejections!

  As an artist — whether that be a writer, painter, or even a musician — I don’t think there’s anything harder than the process of asking for “approval” from an agent.  And, really, that’s what the querying process is; it’s submitting your hard work to a select group of people and asking them to like it.   When…

  C.H. Armstrong

  April 7, 2015

  Writing and Querying

  books, querying, writers, writing