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: 89º and sunny
Yesterday I shared Susan Lawson’s journal entry. She, like so many waiting writers, asks what to write next? It’s a valid question. Does one begin the second book in…
By Wendy Lawton on Jun 8, 2010 in Blog, Finding an Agent, Writing Life, query | 13 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Tehachapi, CA
Weather: Breezy and beautiful
Last time I blogged, I talked about query letter dos and don’ts. Mostly the don’ts. I want to follow that up with the next step–what to do once you’ve got that book done,…
By Wendy Lawton on Jun 7, 2010 in Blog, Finding an Agent, Writing Life, query | 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: 67º and cloudy
First, let’s talk about yesterday’s worst case scenario– when your queries go out to a dozen agents and . . . nothing. I appreciated the responses. Excellent.
Here’s what I…
By Wendy Lawton on Apr 13, 2010 in Agents, Authors, Blog, Finding an Agent, query | 9 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: Wendy Lawton
Location: Old New Castle, Delaware
Weather: 59º and sunny
As we continue talking about the writer’s journey let’s look at the second step.
Step Two: The Threshold
This is the jumping off point for the adventure. Once past this threshold, the hero…
By Wendy Lawton on Mar 9, 2010 in Blog, Writing Life, query | 9 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley, California Office
Weather: Cloudy and 67º
I guess you can tell that we’ve been talking about rule-following and judicious rule-bending this week. Let’s take a look at some of the rules you’ve heard about…
By Wendy Lawton on Nov 11, 2009 in Agents, Authors, Finding an Agent, query | 5 Comments
