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Date:11 June 2020Posted By:Jon FordComments:9 CommentsCategory:BlogPostTag:#IWSGPit, #PitMad, #Twitter Pitch, Agents, Publishing, Querying, Twitter, Writer

Twitter Pitches!

Twitter holds regular ‘Pitch‘ events. These are events where you try and pitch your work in 280 characters and hope an agent bites on your premise! Two such events are: #PitMad #IWSGPit Here are the pitches I created for these events! I’ll go through each of them and explain what I was going for.  Pitch…

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Date:15 April 2020Posted By:Jon FordComments:16 CommentsCategory:BlogPostTag:Cover Letter, Literary Agents, Manuscript, Pitch, Querying, Synopsis

Querying Ughdate!

It’s been a couple of months since I wrote a blog post on my initial feelings about the querying process. The post was written on January 19th and detailed what I was thinking about my motivations for pursuing the traditional route for publishing and – after my first week or two of familiarising myself with…

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Date:10 March 2020Posted By:Jon FordComments:10 CommentsCategory:BlogPostTag:Author News, Editing, Hunters, Querying, Songbird, Writer Feelings

Songbird News – 10th March 2020

We interrupt the normally scheduled blogs to bring you an update on what’s going on at my end of the writing process at the moment. For those of you following my latest blog posts about my influences, they will be returning very shortly. I just got a little delayed in looking for something for one…

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Date:19 January 2020Posted By:Jon FordComments:18 CommentsCategory:BlogPostTag:Cover Letter, Literary Agents, Manuscript, Pitch, Querying, Synopsis

Querying! Ugh!

So… You’re trying to find an Agent?I feel your pain! The road to writing and publishing a book seems so clear when you start out. There’s kind of a road map to get you from point A to point B and so on…at least there is at first. Problem is that map becomes more obscure…

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Date:14 January 2020Posted By:Jon FordComments:18 CommentsCategory:BlogPostTag:Agent Rejection, Author Confidence, Imposter Syndrome, Querying, Writer Support

Imposter Syndrome

The scariest bit about being a writer – for me at least – is the neuroses it brings out in me. So, here it is, the dirty truth laid bare… I don’t believe I’m very good at anything. Truly, I don’t. I have a deep-rooted envy of people who brim with self-confidence. The kind of…

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LenamoArtLenamo.Art *** Commissions are OPEN! ***@LenamoArt·
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The awesome cover I recently painted for Jon looks so pretty! <3 https://twitter.com/_Knightingale_/status/1320396010485649410

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I have a BOOK COVER REVEAL!!!

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https://jonfordauthor.com/songbirdnews/be-honest-we-do-judge-a-book-by-its-cover/

But, here's a peek at it here too. I LOVE it, hope you do too!
THANK YOU SO MUCH @LenamoArt for painting it for me.

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I feel like doing a #giveaway

No reason, just sharing a love filled laugh wrapped up in a cute cover.

#Comment to enter.

RT for extra entry.

Winners choice of #signed PB. My books and crazy #characters are waiting to entertain you.

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