With the news on changes at Twitter, we’re already seeing changes to writing twitter. I’ve seen a number of announcements by people who are leaving. Ironically, that’s the most Twitter response ever — that call to act immediately or you’re #NotDoingYourPart. I’m not leaving Twitter today. And it’s not because I don’t think what is...

Pitch Wars is gone. Here’s what I know: when something that big disappears, it leaves a vacuum, and the only thing I remember from science class is that nature abhors a vacuum. So something (or more likely, somethings) are going to show up in the space. So, here’s some advice from someone who has seen...

I’m not ready to reflect on the end of Pitch Wars and what it means going forward yet, so I thought I’d talk about everything that happened to me surrounding Pitch Wars going backward. I think I’ve told most of these stories at some point, but maybe never all in the same place. 2014. I’d...

Wayne Santos is the author of THE CHIMERA CODE, published by Rebellion Publishing. Recently, he reached out to ask if he could do a guest post as part of my new series. He wanted to talk about the book NOPHEK GLOSS, which is one of my favorite new SF books, so I was excited to...

You might have seen the phrase vet agents (and/or editors) before submitting materials. It gets thrown around a lot in the writing world, especially around pitch contests and such. The premise behind it being that anybody can call themselves an agent (or an editor.) So what do we mean when we say that? What is...

The application window to be a Pitch Wars mentor for 2021 has opened. With that, several people have reached out to ask me if I’m planning to apply. I’m not. So I thought I’d explain my thoughts on that publicly. First, and most important, my decision has nothing to do with Pitch Wars itself. I...

As the most stressful part of Pitch Wars approaches — wait, you didn’t think the other parts were stressful, did you? Huh. Well, carry on, I guess. Nothing to see here. Of course I’m talking about the agent showcase. A lot of you are going to stress about it, regardless of what I tell you....

With the agent showcase coming up, I thought I’d pass on a message that applies every year. Most of you aren’t going to listen to me, and that’s cool. You are excited, and you can do whatever you want. After all, this is your shot. Except it’s not. This is certainly *a* shot. But it’s...