Melissa Maygrove

My recent post about author-editor Nicole Steinhaus drew a LOT of attention. Just 36 hours after launch, it became the most-visited post on my blog, of all time. I want to thank those of you who offered your support. Save a few remarks from Nicole and her Twitter followers ( who likely didn't have all the facts ), not a single person chided me for my post. In fact, the supportive comments you see are but a fraction of the ones I got. Many members of the writing community were not in a position to comment publicly, and I understand.

Stop that senseless querying. Don't bother finding an agent. The secret to making it big in publishing is hiding right under your nose.  Just get a job in the publishing industry, jump on the NA bandwagon, and self-publish under a pen name. Heck—promote your alter ego as if you’re two separate people and write a review for your own book if you feel so inclined. Before you know it, you'll be raking in thousands! I'm sure you've all heard that the author behind the pen name Cora Carmack ( Losing It ) is really literary agent Brittany Howard. You can read her confession here . Well, guess what? It's happened again.