Curious about how a book begins its journey to traditional publication? After writing a novel, a would-be author needs to find a literary agent who will represent him or her and attempt to sell the book to publishers. Query Letter Success has collected a lot of query letters that published authors first used to gain the attention of their agents. You can see the original query letter I wrote to my agent Jim McCarthy, back in 2013. Notice how similar the wording is to the back cover copy of Zeroboxer.
I talk with Brent Bowen from Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing about Zeroboxer, sports in speculative fiction, performance enhancement, sports marketing, the journey to publication, and more.
The time is upon us. Here’s all the online and live Zeroboxer excitement that will be happening over the next few weeks. I’ll be pelting fun information, extra content, and giveaways left and right. Follow along, join in, show up – it’s going to be a great time.
List subject to addition and changes. Links updated as events occur:
Google Hangout with YA Debut Authors at 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST with myself, Becky Albertalli, I.W. Gregorio, Marie Jaskulka, Stephanie Lyons, and Meredith Moore. (Click the link to watch the recorded event.)
My action sci-fi novel Zeroboxer hits the shelves in three weeks. It’s been quite the journey so far, but hopefully this is just the beginning of much more. So I’m starting up a quarterly newsletter called “News and Brain Scraps” to share author news, events, and extra features with those who would like to know.
If you would like to hear from me, I will send you an email three or four times a year. I’ll share news about my books, what events I’ll be at, videos, advance book excerpts or short fiction, exclusive giveaways, science fiction and fantasy related links, and any other random cool shit I want to show you.
If you’ve read this far, you’re probably at least remotely interested. So to sweeten the pot, I’m celebrating the launch of Zeroboxer on April 8 by giving away this prize pack to one randomly chosen person on my subscriber list.
This package includes:
A personalized and signed copy of Zeroboxer (the photo shows an advance reader copy, but you’ll get a finished copy)
DVDs of the two classic movies Rocky and Gattaca (to get you in the mood for sports drama and genetic engineering)
Collectible vinyl figurines of Ender and Petra from Ender’s Game (because zero gravity battle room, natch)
One of my favorite parts of writing Zeroboxer was envisioning and depicting the sport of zeroboxing. How would a combat sport work in the absence of gravity? Check out what these martial artists and fighters have to say about it.
Getting as excited as those guys?
That’s not all. To celebrate my birthday today, and the fact that Zeroboxer hits shelves in less than a month, I’m offering up a pack of science fiction and fantasy books from my publisher, Flux.
It includes an advance reader copy of Zeroboxer, as well as The Oathbreaker’s Shadow by Amy McCulloch, Wordless by AdriAnne Strickland, Insomnia by J.R. Johansson, The Culling by Steven dos Santos and Backward Glass by David Lomax.
Just enter the raffle below for a chance to win.
Giveaway runs through March 17. Limited to the US and Canada.
