Queries, Qualms, & Quirks asks published authors to share their successful query letter and discuss their journey from first spark to day of publication. Author Sarah Nicolas interviews authors of all genres about how they got started writing, their writing process, getting their book deal, and their experiences with publication.
https://sarahnicolas.com/queries-qualms-quirks/
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 7 hours 57 minutes
episode 5: Picture Book Author Anna Lazowski and an Aggressively Vicious Business
Picture Book Author Anna Lazowski joins Queries, Qualms, & Quirks this week to discuss her journey to publication.
Anna Lazowski wrote her first picture book for a class assignment in the sixth grade and has been creating stories ever since. Now an award-winning radio producer, Anna has an MA (Journalism) from the University of Western Ontario and a BFA (Hons.) from the University of Manitoba. She lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba with her husband, two teenagers, and two dogs...
episode 6: YA Author Jennifer Chen and Trying to Go Too Fast
YA Author Jennifer Chen joins Queries, Qualms, & Quirks this week to discuss her journey to publication.
Jennifer Chen is a freelance journalist who has written for Oprah Daily, Real Simple, and Today. Her debut YA rom-com book, Artifacts of an Ex, is out now.
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episode 5: YA Author Allison L. Bitz and the Character as Client
YA Author Allison L. Bitz joins Queries, Qualms, & Quirks this week to discuss her journey to publication.
Allison L. Bitz hails from Lincoln, NE, where she lives with her spouse, two kids, and various rescue pets. When she’s not writing a novel or a song, Dr. Bitz is helping clients in her private counseling practice, planning some form of political action, or trying to track down a pastry to enjoy with her coffee...
episode 4: Picture Book Author Janelle Harper and the Vague Abyss of Publishing
Picture Book Author Janelle Harper joins Queries, Qualms, & Quirks this week to discuss her journey to publication.
Janelle Harper is a Bronx native who enjoys storytelling through dance and ballpoint pens. She finds inspiration for children’s stories in city living and the diverse experiences of the African Diaspora. Janelle is passionate about creating stories that reflect the faces she sees in her classroom and neighborhood...
episode 3: Horror Author Nora Fussner and It Taking as Long as It Takes
Horror Author Nora Fussner joins Queries, Qualms, & Quirks this week to discuss her journey to publication.
Nora Fussner has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from CUNY Brooklyn College. Her debut novel, The Invisible World, was published by Vintage in September 2023. Other work has appeared in Longleaf Review, Brooklyn Review, and Electric Literature. She lives in Pittsburgh...
episode 2: MG Author Kate Fussner and Sculpting Poems One Page at a Time
MG Author Kate Fussner joins Queries, Qualms, & Quirks this week to discuss her journey to publication.
Kate Fussner is a novelist, teacher, and accidental poet living in Massachusetts with her wife and dramatic dog. When not reading or writing, Kate can be found baking, spending time with her family, or singing her favorite musicals. Kate believes in the power of a good laugh and a good cry, and hopes her stories will provide readers with both...
episode 1: Fantasy Author Rose Black and Slamming Into a Brick Wall
Fantasy Author Rose Black joins Queries, Qualms, & Quirks this week to discuss her journey to publication.
Rose Black is a combination of anxiety and dyslexia in a hoodie, bi, a professional computer wrangler, and mother to the world’s wiggliest child. She’s lucky enough to live in the historic city of Bath and is capable of eating her weight in sushi...
episode 24: Magical Realist Author Angel Di Zhang and Pajamas in the Recording Studio
Magical Realist Author Angel Di Zhang joins Queries, Qualms, & Quirks this week to discuss recording her own audiobook, having an editor who gets your vision, Pitch Wars, writing books that you don't want, the joy in writing a perfect sentence, querying too early, the two sentence critique that led to a rewrite, and getting sidetracked by the wrong feedback.
Angel Di Zhang was born in northeast China, and raised in China, England, Canada and the United States...
episode 23: Cookbook Author Jules Sherred and A New Way to Write Recipes
Cookbook Author Jules Sherred joins Queries, Qualms, & Quirks this week to discuss query tracker, a fortuitous agent connection, the two-year overnight project, selling out on Amazon on pub day, breaking the rules, ripping out readers' guts, getting in trouble for his writing, and the problem with a quick publication schedule...