How to Stop Talking to Ourselves and Start Talking to Our Readers
In today's Books with Hooks, we're joined by guest agent, Emmy Nordstrom-Higdon from Westwood Creative Artists who looks at four submissions. During the segment, Emmy discusses executing the world-bui...
15 Sep 20221h 9min
Tearing a Story Apart Until the Puzzle Pieces Fit Perfectly
In today's Books with Hooks, Carly and CeCe review a resubmission and in the process discuss an impressive author paragraph; writing the subtleties of familial relationships; the difficulties of a plo...
8 Sep 20221h 1min
Writing a Successful Book Proposal
In today's Books with Hooks, Carly and CeCe discuss the target audience for a coming of age novel; the pitfalls of the early 2000s as a setting; the importance of your major dramatic question in a que...
1 Sep 20221h 8min
How Classic Literature Can Inform Your Own Work
In today's Books with Hooks, Carly and CeCe are joined by Nurin and Layne who submitted their work for critique. During the segment, they discuss a romance query that succeeds in delivering ample stak...
25 Aug 20221h 7min
Balancing Character Development, Curiosity Seeds and Plot
In today's Books with Hooks, Carly and CeCe look at two queries each, in the process discussing what is meant when agents want specificity in a query, particularly when it comes to world building; the...
18 Aug 20221h 34min
Letting the Story Be Bigger Than You
In today's Books with Hooks, Carly and CeCe discuss having a strong sense of place in your work; an example of a good prologue; when it can work to put comps at the end of your query; examples where ...
11 Aug 20221h 20min
Maximizing the Benefit of Working with a Freelance Editor
In today's special Books with Hooks, Carly and CeCe are joined by guest literary agent, Jenni Ferrari-Adler who represents Susie Yang (whose novel, White Ivy, was the #BookswithHooksBC pick for June)...
4 Aug 20221h 6min
From the Archives: Dealing with Rejection
In today's episode from the archives, Bianca chats with award-winning and bestselling author, Lily King (author of Writers & Lovers) about the writer's life; scrapping novels halfway through; dealing ...
28 Jul 202230min
