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Month: October 2020

October 31, 2020October 31, 2020 JES HaysTips and Tricks

Query Letter Tips

This is from our Query Letter Boot Camp by Angie Hodapp. Here are 8 Tips for writing a query letter: Shorter query letters tend to get better responses than long […]

October 24, 2020October 24, 2020 JES HaysYour Platform

Goodreads for Authors

This is something I’ve been doing the past couple of days, since we had a workshop on the subject at the Women Writing the West Conference. If you’ve published anything, […]

October 18, 2020October 18, 2020 JES HaysInspiration

Women Writing the West Conference

Yesterday was the last day of the Women Writing the West Conference. This was a great little conference — lots to do and plenty of classes for every type of […]

October 12, 2020October 12, 2020 JES HaysThe Birth of a Novel

Under Western Stars Paperback!

The anthology is out in paperback now — proceeds go to support the Western Fictioneers so we don’t have to pay so much for our conferences and such — we’ve […]

October 8, 2020October 8, 2020 JES HaysInspiration

Women Writing the West

Next week is another writing conference — Women Writing the West’s Climbing Higher: Endless Vistas, Unlimited Vision. This looks like a very useful conference — not quite as much to […]

October 2, 2020October 2, 2020 JES HaysThe Birth of a Novel

Awards & Contests

The anthology is live now — there’s a little snafu with the paperback version but they’re working on it so that should be available soon. I’m entering “A Little Night […]

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