answering your questions about being a fantasy author✨📖 how to write a book, publish, query etc

📖✨welcome back to my channel! ✨📖 #author #authortube #booktok #ditl #querying #bookdeal

hi! I'm Esmie, author of the Sunday Times Bestselling space fantasy book THE PRINCIPLE OF MOMENTS, which is best described as Treasure Planet meets Atlantis with a lot more romance🥰

Questions time-stamped:
01:15 - What motivates you to write?
02:48 - How long did Book 1 take you to write, compared to Book 2?
04:21 - How do you make your query stand out so you can get an agent?
06:25 - Any advice for aspiring writers who want to try and get published one day?
08:50 - What is the best way to get published?
09:33 - TOP QUERYING TIP
11:17 - my old fashioned online, 100% free query resource
13:38 - How much does a story change in the editing process?
15:35 - How many agents should you query at once?
16:29 - How long did it take you to write your novel?
17:14 - if you had to write one other genre what would it be?
18:35 - what were your least & most favourite parts of the book writing process?


This is a Q&A, where I answer questions I got from instagram about what it's like being a fantasy author! Feel free to just watch the parts of the video that are most relevant to you, and ask any questions you like in the comments section :))

Thank you for watching!