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• Get Your Novel Published – The Submission Campaign

  
  The Cuckleburr Times — Authority: 125
  Your novel is completed and all of your auxiliary materials-literary query letter, novel synopsis, short synopsis, cover letter-are ready. Now what do you do? You don’t start sending things out helter-skelter, hoping something with hit the target. You take a thoughtful, intelligent, businesslike approach to ...
  3 days ago

• Literary Agent Scams – How to Protect Yourself From Con Artists

  
  The Cuckleburr Times — Authority: 125
  “How do you know if a literary agency is reputable and not a scam to get your money?” New writers and veteran novelists can fall victim to literary agency schemes–ploys that literary agents use to create false legitimacy or earn a fast dollar from an unsuspecting writer. All writers should be wary when ...
  3 days ago

• Enter the Agent

  
  Suspense Author's Daily HotchPotch — Authority: 125
  The rise of the Literary Agent, in France:“In the Anglo-Saxon literary world if you want to publish a book, you look for an agent first. So I never thought to do anything else. This French notion of sending your manuscript direct to a publishing house is foreign to me. I do understand that it worries [...]
  6 days ago

• Tis The Season

  
  QueryTracker.net — Authority: 417
  I dont mean its time for parties and sleigh rides and stuff. No, I mean its the season to get your query ready. In this post, Im not going to talk about how to get your query ready. (Ive already done that here . And theres a wealth of info on that particular topic.) No, this post is about the "best time" to query. ...
  1 week ago

• Agent Appreciation Day: Jean Naggar

  
  Sarah Laurence Blog — Authority: 402
  Behind most authors is a hardworking literary agent. An agent can get thousands of quarries in a year. Her decision to represent an author is a greater commitment than a publisher’s because it is usually a lifetime relationship. A reputable agent works off the commission from sold manuscripts and takes no money ...
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• Agent Appreciation Day!

  
  distraction no. 99 — Authority: 117
  I am taking a break from my regularly scheduled angsting and deadline-driven antisocial behavior to join in Agent Appreciation Day and say a public thank-you to the person who’s making my dreams come true! About seven-and-a-half months ago I found an agent. That whirlwind day was captured in this breathless ...
  1 week ago

• The agent thing

  
  STEVENHARTSITE — Authority: 132
  I’ve said this about literary agents many times, but if you still don’t believe me here’s Bob Mayer to reinforce the message : Most writers just want an agent — any agent.  But a bad agent is worse than no agent.  Not “bad” in terms of them as agents (although they do exist) but bad in terms of an ...
  1 week ago

• Book Writing: What is a Literary Agency Agreement?

  
  The Plot Cafe — Authority: 114
  Many aspiring book writers yearn to get a literary agent for representation. Literary agents have become valuable to getting books published. The first step could determine if you can make it or break it. Before signing an agreement, you may wonder what things you need to consider. Many literary agents may not be ...
  2 weeks ago

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  Sunnybank Meanderings — Authority: 118
  Special People One of the highlights of my year! Meeting Diana Flegel, my literary agent. Shes just as wonderful as she sounds over the phone. Knowlegeable, interested, concerned and prayerful about her clients and their work, fun. Two of my fellow writers: Max Lewis (in the middle--and hes not ...
  2 weeks ago

• PiBoIdMo Grand Prize Winners!

  
  Writing for Kids (While Raising Them) — Authority: 415
  Without further ado (I know you’ve been waiting all day), here are the PiBoIdMo Grand Prize winners! With the help of Random.org , winners were selected from the eligible pool of 51 picture book writers who signed the PiBoIdMo pledge . Grand Prize Winner #1: AUNTIE FLAMINGO! You have been assigned to agent ...
  2 weeks ago

• Literary Agent Don Congdon, 1918-2009

  
  E-Reads — Authority: 572
  Don Congdon, one of the worlds great literary agents, died Monday at the age of 91. In his New York Times obituary, William Grimes described the seminal moment in Congdons career - his discovery of Ray Bradbury when Congdon was working at the Harold Matson agency. He represented Bradbury for 53 years. “I ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Agented Angle

  
  QueryTracker.net — Authority: 417
  Today were taking a jaunt across the fence to see if the grass is really greener on the other side of the fence. The agented fence. So many of us are working hard to perfect that query letter, research agents and hoping to find that one industry believer who can get our book into the hands of an editor. But what ...
  3 weeks ago

• Take the PiBoIdMo Pledge

  
  Writing for Kids (While Raising Them) — Authority: 415
  OK, time’s up! Do you have 30 new picture book ideas? You do? Excellent! Time to take the PiBoIdMo pledge to qualify for one of our keeno-Yaccarino prizes. (Sorry, there are no Dan Yaccarino books to give away. I just like that phrase.) I do solemnly swear that I have faithfully executed the PiBoIdMo challenge, ...
  3 weeks ago

• This is how you get a literary agent or publisher

  
  Write for Your Life — Authority: 103
  This post points you to a fantastic guide to putting a book proposal together, followed by my own account of unconventionally attempting to get a literary agent. Left: The first of many devices used to write my novel. Right: Reading at Hay in 2004. You know when you spend a couple of weeks thinking about ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Random Day

  
  Gledwood Vol 2 (Main blog) — Authority: 127
  I COULDNT SLEEP last night. So I randomly trawled my shelves and picked up a Marian Keyes novel ~ which is non-romance chicklit and I found it on the street by the way ~ a story about a literary agent and two novelists . Reading about book publishing wound me up so I was even less amenable to sleep. But I did ...
  4 weeks ago

• With a Thankful Heart

  
  QueryTracker.net — Authority: 417
  Since our American readers are celebrating Thanksgiving this week, it seems a good time for a moment of gratitude. In fact, theres really no wrong time to be thankful. Many people consider writing to be a solitary activity. But however true that may be, when you begin a quest for publication, you join a community. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Random Rejection: Doyen Literary Services

  
  James Viscosi's Scribblings — Authority: 106
  Here’s what I consider an example of a form rejection letter done right: It doesn’t offer uselessly general advice, generic statements about what the agent is or is not looking for, lengthy attempts to justify the rejection, or nonspecific critiques. It’s just a simple “no thank you, try again”, which in ...
  4 weeks ago

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