Cheap Backups for Writers

I believe that there is a law in the universe for backups: frequency is directly proportional to data loss, i.e., about the only time you really get serious about doing backups is when you’ve had a crash and lose your files. Or, to put the less negative spin on it, the more often you do a backup, the less data you lose. You know it. I know it. It is a law after all. We’ll call it the Universal Backup Law. [...]

Step 4. Querying Agents, Part 5 of 11

With my completed proposal for a non-fiction book and a query letter in hand, I set out to find a literary agent. I went no further than the Writer’s Market, the gargantuan doorstop of a reference book for all things writerly. It even came with a CD so that I didn’t have to keep lifting it. Today, there’s even a web site. [...]