Writers Tools
The unglamorous work, done properly.
Titles, query letters, first pages, jacket copy and contracts. Whether you are submitting to houses or publishing the book yourself, these are the parts nobody teaches you.
Submission Guide ⇢
What we take, what we pay, and the form to send a story on. Short fiction, published whole and free; one story at a time, read by a person.
Title Workshop ⇢
Type a working title and see what a reader sees: whether it can be found in a search, what genre it signals, and which words are doing the work.
Query Letter Check ⇢
Paste the letter you are about to send. We mark the paragraph an editor stops reading at, and the sentence that should have been first.
Opening Page Diagnostic ⇢
The first 250 words, read the way a stranger in a bookshop reads them: where the attention holds, where it wanders, and what the page promises.
Blurb Builder ⇢
Jacket copy in the shape publishers actually use: the situation, the turn, the cost, and the line that sends someone to the till.
Rights and Contracts, in Plain English ⇢
What you are actually signing away: territory, term, subsidiary rights, reversion. Written by a small press that has read the bad versions.
Full-Service Publishing ⇢
Ideation to publication with a real editor: structural edit, line edit, cover, typesetting, and the listing work most authors do badly alone.
Free to use. Three more tools open when memberships do. Readers Tools ⇢