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Hi, Kathy, welcome to the Forum! It is a privilege to have a well-known author like you with us. You are an inspiration to us aspiring science fiction/fantasy writers. I have several questions for you: 1) Aside from Tor, do you know any other publishing house that regularly publishes juvenile...

Avoid www.scribendi.com. www.book-editing.com seems to have many competent editors, but they charge high prices. Right now I'm thinking of working with the editors at www.authorassist.com. Good luck!

I self-published it, but self-publishing is really getting me nowhere. Now I'll try to publish it the traditional way.

Thanks, my friends, for your feedbacks. I never liked surgery in medical school, but now I guess I have a lot of cutting to do!:)

I realize there must be very little interest in this forum in reading the synopsis of a novel, but I hope to submit my query letter and synopsis to agents and publishers soon, and I desperately need criticism of my synopsis. I can only hope that someone here would take pity on me and give me...

I just want to thank everyone who responded to my posts in this thread. Your kindness is greatly appreciated, and all of your suggestions are received with the utmost respect. If anyone else is working on a query letter or synopsis for a novel, please feel free to post in the critique section...

OMG, I just read Kelpie's comments below and realized my query letter is way too long. It's almost like a synopsis. Please ignore that post altogether. Writing a query letter is such a pain.:(

I finally sat down and wrote the query letter myself. What do you think? I would really appreciate any feedbacks, comments. Thanks!

I confess I have no idea how to write a great query letter, so I decided to let the so called "professionals" do it for me. I submitted my novel to Scribendi.com, which offers, among other things, the service of writing a query letter, a synopsis, and a chapter summary. It cost me about $100...

V for Vendetta Has anyone else seen this movie? I think it's the best movie of the year so far. It's about government totalitarianism, and the suppression of ideas and of love. I even wept for the victims of government persecution. This is a deeply affecting film with an important message, and...

Thanks, Brian, for all the great advice. Personally I never had any desire to purchase books advertised by the author in a forum like this. I am very susceptible to the "hype" that a book is receiving. The books that I often considered buying were those on the best-seller lists, heavily...

It's the Tripod Trilogy: The White Mountain, The City of Gold and Lead, and The Pool of Fire, by John Christopher.

Thank you so much, Kelpie, for your input. Does anyone else have any other thoughts on the topic of book reviews? It's my impression that the publishers at least seem to place heavy emphasis on reviews. Almost all books have third-party reviews on their backcovers or the first few pages...

I finally sent my self-published novel to a few third-party reviewers about 2 weeks ago, and today I got the first review back, from TCM Reviews. But it isn't much of a review, really. There is a summary of the novel that the reviewer could have gotten from the backcover or the novel's...

Review of Witch Hill by Marcus Sedgwick Another children’s fantasy novel by the author of The Book of Dead Days. This is an earlier effort, and it lacks the complexity and intensity of his later masterpiece, but it is nevertheless a fun and engaging read. Jamie is a boy haunted by thoughts of...

How true. If you publish your book before 19, you might be even more famous than Chistopher Paolini!

Re: Earthsea Trailer (minor book spoilers) Well, we don't know that, unless you include Asians in the category of white. All of the characters that I've seen have dark brown hair. The Japanese drew Asians with pale skin, hair of all colors, and big eyes in a lot of anime that I've seen. I...

The Book of Dead Days is a fast-paced, gripping page-turner. The story takes place in the 18th century in a nameless European city. Valerian, a magician who performs magic tricks in a theater for a living, has a servant boy named Boy whom he took under his care from the streets several years...

Here's a brief review of The Sea of Trolls. Contains minor spoilers. Nancy Farmer’s The Sea of Trolls is an entertaining children’s fantasy and adventure novel set in the early Middle Ages, at a time when Vikings still roamed the North seas. Although the novel is fairly engaging, it is...

Less known YA author? Me!:D (Just to imitate Mark Robson above, who is my hero.) Anyone read Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro? Again, famous author, but maybe few know that he wrote a SF&F novel. I loved his debut novel, The Remains of the Day, but haven't read anything else by him since.