The long and short of why word count matters to a querying writer
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On Writing: From A Certain Point of View
Telling the same story from different angles
Writer’s Desk
Query prep, agents opening, short fic subs, and more
Dear Sir or Madam
Fantastic Agents and Where to Find Them
2025 Year in Review
We'll take a cup of kindness yet.
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Dear Sir or Madam
Beginning again...again.
Islands in the Sky
How the modern sci-fi writer can faithfully depict space colonies: the inverted, artificial worlds future humans may call home
Awaited
Give us peace.
Introducing: The Drum
A reader's introduction to a bold new project
Michael T. Kuester 