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  Sunnybank Meanderings — Authority: 120
  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 ...
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• PiBoIdMo Grand Prize Winners!

  
  Writing for Kids (While Raising Them) — Authority: 494
  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 ...
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• Literary Agent Don Congdon, 1918-2009

  
  E-Reads — Authority: 590
  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 ...
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• 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 ...
  4 days ago

• Take the PiBoIdMo Pledge

  
  Writing for Kids (While Raising Them) — Authority: 494
  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, ...
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• This is how you get a literary agent or publisher

  
  Write for Your Life — Authority: 104
  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 ...
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• A Random Day

  
  Gledwood Vol 2 (Main blog) — Authority: 128
  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 ...
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• 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. ...
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• Random Rejection: Doyen Literary Services

  
  James Viscosi's Scribblings — Authority: 107
  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 ...
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• Publishing Pulse 11/20/09

  
  QueryTracker.net — Authority: 417
  New Literary Agents: Amy Burkhardt at Kimberley Cameron & Associates . From their website: "She represents both fiction and nonfiction projects for the adult market. In fiction, she looks for literary and commercial fiction, upmarket womens fiction, mysteries with a twist or an unusual protagonist, and ...
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• Ontario Writers’ Conference Newsletter Sign-up…

  
  A Wandering Mind — Authority: 107
  Sign-up now for the Ontario Writers’ Conference Newsletter. Get the latest news. Get the updates as they arrive.Click on the link below, fill in your email address and click on the ‘Join Now!’ button.ONTARIO NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP First newsletter will be going out shortly. Find out what a BLUE PENCIL SESSION ...
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• Robert J. Sawyer to Speak & Teach at 2010 Conference

  
  A Wandering Mind — Authority: 107
  Science Fiction phenom, Robert J. Sawyer will be the keynote speaker and one of the workshop instructors for the 2010 Ontario Writers’ Conference. Conference to take place on May 1st, 2010 at Deer Creek Golf & Banquet Facility in Ajax, Ontario…minutes from Toronto. For Mr. Sawyer’s bio information, please ...
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• 2010 Ontario Writers’ Conference

  
  A Wandering Mind — Authority: 107
  Registrations are now being accepted for the 2010 Ontario Writers’ Conference.What began in 2008 as the dream of a handful of organizers from the Writers’ Circle of Durham Region became a full-fledged writers’ organization in 2009.The Ontario Writers’ Conference has blossomed from its inaugural event into a ...
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• Jack of All Trades: An Interview with Publisher/Agent Turned Writer J.E. Fishman

  
  The Nervous Breakdown — Authority: 563
  Remember that over-achieving kid in your high school class who was on the varsity basketball team, President of the Student Body, AND played a mean guitar solo in the talent show? That’s J.E. Fishman…only in the publishing world.
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• Prejudice: Not a Wise Platform Strategy

  
  QueryTracker.net — Authority: 417
  Platform, platform, platform. We hear it all the time--from agents, from editors, from publicists, from other writers both published and unpublished. "Develop a readership and a base so your novel will be successful," we are told. "Create a web presence and name recognition." So, we haunt forums and writer ...
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• Another PiBoIdMo Prize Announcement

  
  Writing for Kids (While Raising Them) — Authority: 494
  Today, bookish Brooklynite Elana Roth of Caren Johnson Literary Agency agreed to join PiBoIdMo to offer grand prize number THREE . If you haven’t checked the prize announcement page , please do! It’s been updated with Elana’s information and the tentative prize schedule. I’m also planning to give away ...
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• The future of literary agents: Will they have to adjust to e-books? Or vice versa? Or will both scenarios happen?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 643
  Literary agent Richard Curtis says agents will make more books available in E when publishers are readier to pay decent advances for digital books. “I’ve known for ten years what’s been holding agents back from plunging into e-book pool,” he writes in the wake of Amazon spending more than 10K to fly some ...
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• Publishing Pulse 11/13/09

  
  QueryTracker.net — Authority: 417
  This will be the finest Publishing Pulse I have ever posted. Youll see a big reason why at the end of this post. But first... some great QueryTracker news: QueryTracker.net has passed a couple of big benchmarks! QT now boasts over 20,000 members and over 200 QueryTracker success stories ! So big ...
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• Literary agent seeks MG/YA novels

  
  Inkygirl: Daily Diversions For Writers — Authority: 132
  Literary agent Elana Roth from the Caren Johnson Literary Agency is looking for MG novels with strong voices and great hooks, non-paranormal YA and conference invitations. See her blog entry for more info.
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• Why Dont Agents Want to Play? Amazon Flies a Bunch to Seattle to Find Out

  
  Publishing in the 21st Century — Authority: 120
  Last week Amazon flew a dozen top New York book agents to Seattle. The purpose was to debrief their attitudes towards e-books in general and Kindle in particular. After reading an account of the meetings and festivities, I did some rough calculations and figure Amazon spent upwards of $10,000 to pick those splendid ...
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