Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office; Santa Rosa, Calif.
On Saturday, after a long day of appointments, I was waiting outside of the appointment rooms to introduce myself to an editor I had never met face-to-face. I love making…
By Rachel Kent on Sep 29, 2011 in Blog, Finding an Agent, Queries, Writing Life | 12 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office, CA
A couple of weeks ago one of my clients wrote to ask the following of me:
“As I’ve observed and visited with many unpublished authors who attend conferences, I find that the…
By Wendy Lawton on Aug 8, 2011 in Agents, Blog, Book Proposals, Business of writing, Finding an Agent, Queries | 18 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Today’s assumption is: Because my manuscript was requested, I should expect to hear back from the editor/agent immediately because he or she has been waiting around to read my submission.
In…
By Rachel Kent on Jul 19, 2011 in Blog, Finding an Agent, Queries, Writing Life | 20 Comments
Blogger: Mary Keeley
Location: Books & Such Midwest Office, IL
How many errors do you find, in this sentence; both puntuation, grammer, and spelling errors.
A lot of hard work goes into preparing a stellar proposal for submission. You need to come up…
By Mary Keeley on Apr 19, 2011 in Blog, Book Proposals, Business of writing, Queries, Writing Life | 17 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Old New Castle, Delaware
Broken things drive me crazy. Just call me the Fix-it Fairy. If something is broken–be it an object, a person, or a system–I have trouble accepting the state of brokenness. I want it fixed.…
By Wendy Lawton on Mar 7, 2011 in Agents, Blog, Business of writing, Finding an Agent, Queries | 26 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office or at the courthouse for jury duty
This year at the Writing for the Soul writers’ conference, I was surprised to find on the first day of appointments that I only had two…
By Rachel Kent on Feb 15, 2011 in Agents, Blog, Business of writing, Finding an Agent, Life, Publishers, Queries | 24 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Florida, participating in author-agent-publisher meeting
So, once you’ve assembled your right idea with the right title and done your homework on making a proposal that pops, it’s time to write your query. Note the order in which…
By Janet Grant on Feb 3, 2011 in Agents, Blog, Finding an Agent, Queries | 20 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office, CA
Thanks for hanging in with me this week as I gave you the inside track. It’s not always easy to hear the realities of this business/art we have chosen. Or has…
By Wendy Lawton on Jan 14, 2011 in Blog, Finding an Agent, Queries | 20 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
Judging by my inbox, a record number of writers have decided that 2011 is their year to publish-or-die. Is that your New Year’s resolution? Sad Truth #1: Getting published is akin to…
By Wendy Lawton on Jan 10, 2011 in Agents, Blog, Finding an Agent, Queries | 40 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
If you frequent agent blogs or follow agents on Twitter you’ll see plenty written about the many ways writers fail. From terrible queries to brash behavior, from craft errors to marketing omissions,…
By Wendy Lawton on Oct 11, 2010 in Agents, Blog, Queries | 23 Comments
