Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
An agent’s Monday starts out much like yours, I bet, but you tell me. Here’s a typical Rachel Monday:
The alarm clock rings, and I hit snooze. This process repeats itself…
By Rachel Zurakowski on Jun 14, 2010 in Agents, Blog, queries, query | 10 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
Weather: A sunny Friday
We’ve talked about avoiding the too-clever query and giving too much information. We’re going to wind up this week by talking about those queries that fail because they are…
By Wendy Lawton on May 14, 2010 in Agents, Blog, Finding an Agent, queries | 12 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
Weather: Warm and sunny
In the comments yesterday I mentioned how important it is for me to know something about the author in the query. When I agree to represent a new client…
By Wendy Lawton on May 13, 2010 in Agents, Blog, Finding an Agent, queries | 14 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
Weather: 82º (Ten degrees hotter than yesterday)
Great comments so far on queries. Today we are going to get into some dos and don’ts. Let me say again, these are not rules, they…
By Wendy Lawton on May 12, 2010 in Agents, Blog, Finding an Agent, queries, query | 22 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
Weather: Return to May sunshine
Great responses yesterday. You communicated the limitations and frustrations of the query system. Truthfully? It’s one of my least favorite parts of this job. I agree that you…
By Wendy Lawton on May 11, 2010 in Agents, Blog, Finding an Agent, queries, query | 25 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
Weather: May flowers mixed with May showers
If you are familiar with Twitter then you’ll be familiar with the title of this week’s blog entries– #QueryFail. That’s a hashtag* for complaints about the…
By Wendy Lawton on May 10, 2010 in Blog, Finding an Agent, queries, query | 11 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
Weather: 61º and rainy
Early on in my life I learned that if I pictured the very worst thing that could happen and figured out some strategies for dealing with it I could…
By Wendy Lawton on Apr 12, 2010 in Agents, Authors, Blog, Finding an Agent, queries, query | 21 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the most popular film stars were Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Astaire and Rogers, in particular, danced through spectaculars, filled with…
By Michelle Ule on Jan 13, 2010 in Agents, Authors, Blog, Writing Life, queries | 14 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley, California Office
Weather: Gorgeous Autumn Weather– sunny and 66º
You’ve seen a number of agent blogs and agent twitters talking about query tips and #queryfail. Agent websites are filled with instructions on how and how-not…
By Wendy Lawton on Nov 9, 2009 in Blog, Finding an Agent, queries, query | 12 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Agents may dole out hundreds (or thousands) of rejections each year, but we experience rejection from the other side too. Each day we receive rejections from publishing houses for authors’…
By Rachel Zurakowski on Jul 23, 2009 in Agents, Life, Publishers, Writing Life, queries | 9 Comments
