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Brilliant! I have always wondered . . . . Thank you. 💙

Thank you!

Right at the end you say isolate any sales hooks. What does that mean please?

How to give an example wouldnt a lot of sentences be considered pacing

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I tried to get the BookLaunchers marketing company to market my Children's Social Emotional Decision Improving Book, "Good Choices Make You Happy" BookLaunchers reaction was we do not market non-fiction Children's books because they do not sell.

Yes, indeed. Now that I've taken up novel writing I've found where to begin to be a very difficult question. My first try was Goblin Princess, which started with the sad life of a 12 year old orphan after the death of her parents, leading to her decision to travel to a distant city seeking a position that would give her a permanent home. She was so low that only the wretched goblins, the lowest rung of society, were beneath her. Then the beginning shifted to the day she actually started her journey, following her as she looks down on the goblins, meets goblins, learns that the goblins are more than human society allows them to be, then becomes increasingly involved with goblins, even buying a goblin dress when she outgrows the dress she's been wearing. More adventures, she's injured, and halfway through the book she wakes up in her old bed with her parents downstairs, and it was all just a dream. Her mother asks where she got such a lovely dress, and when she looks down she's wearing the goblin dress. She wakes up again and now she's entirely in goblin society until the end of the book; an outsider there, but also in her old life. I decided a beginning where she's leaving her old life behind was a better start than one where she was still clinging to it.

My 1srt person character is quite arrogant and he describes why and how he commands the attention of many women

If they are so busy to read manuscripts there is a problem with the number of agents. There should be much more agents available.

It's easy for male characters describing women....they either want to bang the female character or they don't....either that, or they remind her of another female character that they want to bang or did bang (or not). It's tougher for females.

Hi i got an email from a literary agent... they said that they charge 160£ as editors for readers report are freelancers!!! What u suggest??

This is very helpful- thank you so much! ❤

Thank you, Mary. Great picture of what's going on on the receiving end.

In my tale, a fantasy romance, the main characters love interest is summoned to be her familiar during a magical ritual. He was in the middle of a harrowing battle when he was summoned, so I added in a bit of description that tied into to that. It was a guy she'd known in the past when they were younger and he was short and rather diminutive. When she summoned him she was surprised to see the towering figure before her, his wild bronze hair and beard slicked with the blood and gore of the unseen battle, and his broad frame that was covered in many wounds that bled greatly then immediately shifts from recognition to reaction to save him, her familiar. With self description, the main character describes such within the tale when she compares aspects of herself to others; being that her lack of self worth & self esteem is a major issue for her throughout. The only mirror scene is when her best friend is looking in a mirror, then gives words of encouragement when the protag expresses not wanting to look at her own reflection, thus deepening her appreciation for her friend in the moment, pushing her slightly to better appreciate that, while not what society would consider 'beautiful', she has her own natural charms that can be appreciated, especially by her love interest. Pretty cookie cutter i know, but I'm trying to think outside the box!

Thank you

Delightful! Thank you!

HAHAHAHHA "good thing he sells cars" 😂

Hahahaha! I never thought a poem as short as this could make me laugh so hard. I love this video so much. And your other videos too. You deserve more viewers.

Mirrors are the worst.

Great video! It takes layers and layers of work that add up to those sales.

This is excellent!!!!! Thank you!

Very helpful. I'm working on my first chapter book. Thank you so much.

Mystrika is webhooks integration with GoHighLevel is a game changer. It makes the whole process so seamless. Have you checked out the AI writing feature? It is a real time-saver when it comes to personalizing cold emails. Give Mystrika a try, you wo not regret it.

This video on lead magnet for unpublished writer is really insightful. Good Story Company always has great content. Have you guys tried Mystrika for lead generation? It is far superior than any other tool out there. Give it a shot!

Sounds like a Lianne Moriarty comp…? I am intrigued.

Thank you

I have my first ever pitch coming up very soon. I am a nervous wreck.

Super helpful.

I hope I clear the hurdle for my children's book. Lol.

I was just thinking about this. Good info - thanks!

Thank you!

Thank you! I appreciate the tips! I’m so excited and nervous about my meeting tomorrow!!

thanks. ive seen a bunch of your videos. good job

Welp, I guess I made things harder for myself in my w-i-p then; at the start of my story, my first-person protag is confined to an underground base, and (for story-related reasons) there are no mirrors in the any of living quarters where she and her two sidekicks are being held. 🙂 Am I right in thinking though, that if you're going to include a description of a character - regardless of the POV being used - that you have to get it in early, or not at all? I say this because I've read a few books where a description of a main character isn't given until, like, two-thirds of the way into the book - and it's been sooo jarring for me, because that point I've conjured up my own interpretation of how they look, and this 'new' description from the author is NOTHING LIKE what's in my head. So now I have to completely readjust everything I thought I knew about this character. The one I remember most where this happened was Kelsier from Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy. As the story progressed, without anything else to go on, I had him down as a dark-haired, solidly built guy (kind of like Brandon himself - maybe a slight self-insert? 😉) Only to find out, some two-thirds of the book later, that he was in fact blond, tall and lanky. COMPLETE mind-scrub required!

Thank you! Very helpful.

This was incredibly helpful. I’m illustrate for some outdoor publications, but I’m also a writer and would like to break into children’s books. I have several ideas and I love how straight to the point this video was.

I thought maybe I have too many characters in my story, and then after some thinking I added one more 😄

Thank you!! My kids and I are writing a nonfiction book series and I’ve been reading and researching many, many books from our local library. And, most of them don’t cite any sources. Why is this? Is there a rule? I can’t seem to find specific information about this. Shouldn’t I list those I interviewed, the medical information I found, and so on? Do you have any advice? I would greatly appreciate it!

The link for Good Enough Book Marketing doesn't work. 🙁

I didn't go to school for it, and I still write. Whether I'm any good at it or not is a different question. lol

How can I sing up on this site??

Thank you so much for sharing the info! ❤

Very good, thanks! Subscribing ✅

thanks for the video :)

What I find frustrating is that "young adult" should be the category for books about 18-24 years olds who are actual young adults. Instead "YA" became books for teens (12/13-18) who, aside from the 18-year-olds aren't actual adults. So to figure out a category for books that don't feel like what are often categorized as adult books (folks past college and first job age - especially when we're looking at novels set in the contemporary world), there was an attempt to say, "hey, if you're an ACTUAL young adult, these books are for you." And I get that "young adult" sounds way cooler to read if you're 14 than "teen" as an age category. It feels like reading up instead of reading laterally, age-wise. But it has done a disservice to readers and writers who want to read/write about actual young adults. Aside from fantasy, there's not really a place that books about characters in that age category fit. Anyway, I just have thoughts about teen books being called YA and therefore there not being a way to announce that books are for actual young adults. I also understand that marketing-wise, NA isn't the best way to go about things because it confuses books with an age group in mind and new books in the adult category. You walk into a bookstore and see New Adult over a table and you're probably going to assume those are new releases in the adult category. Sigh.

I like the new video corner too!

Thank you for the informative clip. One question: Do we submit entire manuscript to the literary agents or only a sample of the manuscript?

Thank you so much!

Love this, thank you for sharing!🎉

This video is perfect. I am a developmental editor and have found myself in a niche of a lot of self-help authors. Sometimes they expect a more detailed line or copy edit during the developmental/content edit, but this early on in the editing process, I only line edit based on what you said here, and I ask myself the following questions: "How does the writing support your thesis statement?" and "Will this (these words, or the order in which the argument is laid out) connect with your target audience?" Then, during the edit and even after when they receive the manuscript back, I will work with the author to make it fit their goals. Then and only then can we begin to "zoom in"-copy and line editing after the structure is finalized is a service that deserves its own care and has its own demands. It takes me much longer, too!