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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: 515
  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: 540
  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: 661
  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: 430
  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: 119
  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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• Why Dont Agents Want to Play? Amazon Flies a Bunch to Seattle to Find Out

  
  E-Reads — Authority: 588
  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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• The Day Literary Agents Go Extinct…

  
  distraction no. 99 — Authority: 127
  …is the day I am in Big Trouble. So there was an alarming post in Galley Cat yesterday—and I was happy to wake up this morning and see my agency’s response here on their blog . I like this especially: At the risk of sounding self-serving, every serious author needs an agent. Not just any agent, of course. ...
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• We Interrupt Your Ideas for a Special Announcement

  
  Writing for Kids (While Raising Them) — Authority: 540
  Remember when I promised PiBoIdMo’ers that if you ended the month with 30 ideas, there would be a special prize? But I just hadn’t figured it out yet? Well, it’s been figured. Everyone who takes the December 1st PiBoIdMo pledge (“I do solemly swear that I have 30 ideas stashed in a Word doc, doodled in a ...
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• GIVING YOUR CHARACTERS LIFE...BY RACHELLE GARDNER

  
  HIJINKS FROM THE HEARTLAND — Authority: 110
  This is a blog post copied from Rachelle Gardners blog Rants and Ramblings of a Literary Agent . I love Rachelles blog as its becoming a great source of publishing information for me. Shes fun, witty, and very well informed. I found this post particularly valuable and thought you might too. RACHELLES POST: ...
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• Fairytales From The Darkside...

  
  Out-Numbered — Authority: 116
  So my daughter is in the 2nd grade and one of the things they do in her class is called Snack-Story Time. Parents are supposed to pick a story, a snack and a day to come to the class to read that story and then administer the snack to the children. The hook is that if possible, you should pick a story that will tie ...
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