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Well done you :) You've hit the ail on the head!

Yep you got it spot on. It's sci-fi with a desert setting in an 'old earth simulation'. Netgalley is an arc program where you put your book there and people can download it for advanced reading before launch and hopefully they will write a review...

I wrote under my own name for my first book, a memoir, and I think that was a right choice (although I've taken that down now. To be honest, I'm embarrassed my ego put it up. It was interesting, and it was picked up by an Australian agent though...

I write under my own name. I have considered a pseudonym because my surname is difficult for non-Celtic-language speakers to pronounce, but I have come across many famous author-names that I have difficulty pronouncing, and my surname is part of...

I use a pseudonym that is also my name. Well, it's my husband's name, but I was unable to take it on after marriage because changing my legal name would have required negotiations with the governments of three nations, two of which barely...

I thought long and hard before going with my own name. Ultimately I need to stand by my words even if it surprises or shocks friends and family. It's a risk because a lot of my work addresses sexual identity, mental health and things I...

There is a fine line between being inoffensive and self-censorship. I've written a blog entry for the new author platform. I haven't published it yet. In the past I blogged, basking in the warm blanket of an assumed name. For fun. This is...

Gorgeous cover :) I'm not familiar with the story, so let's pretend I'm a new reader and I'll tell you what I think the story is about from the cover, and then you see how close I got (btw, some genres I'm okay with, some I'm crap, so take what...

RK, so far, that's only worked with URL's. In the future, I'll create special content for that purpose. I came up flatfooted this time, but not next time.

I don't know. If you look down the bottom of the form, there's an option to attach Graphics. I haven't paid great attention to it, but I'd be inclined to attach what you want there, regardless of the wording they use.

Thanks for your answers. I'm noticing that the proposal process is becoming more and more restricted. With these forms, it's no longer possible to include graphics or show your recipe formatting skills. A "trap?" Not really, needing a different...

@BrianY It's no trap. I've completed hundreds of Querytracker forms over a number of projects (and I worship Querytracker. It really takes away the stress of keeping a record of which agent I've queried). But on the form, there's a question...

I choose voice over plot, although it's good to get both. (I tired reading a Lianne Moriarty once, but it wasn't for me. Plenty of voice, but not a voice I wanted to spend time with.) Voice makes me think of The Book of Form and Emptiness by...

I'm okay with any voice as long as it's strong and consistent. I'm listening to the Big Sleep for the Litopia Book Club and frankly am a bit lost on the plot, but the voice is just rumbling along so nicely I don't care!

We all know voice is something that comes from us and is the sum of our choices: what words we use, the syntax, the themes we write, the style, etc etc etc I've just finished a Harlen Corben novel, and his voice is so distinct. His choices are...