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Jan.07.2010
Sounds True, Inc. is looking for a Editorial Administrative Assistant. See other great jobs at our Job Board.Jane Dystel: Book Publishing in the Next 10 YearsBy Jeff Rivera on Jan 06, 2010 08:23 AM
Veteran agent, Jane Dystel of Dystel & Goderich Literary Management, best known for discovering...
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Jan.05.2010
Janet Reid, Literary Agent
Periodically I've posted tallies of my replies to incoming query letters. After one of those posts I realized that it might be interesting to keep tabs on what happens when I request a full. I started keeping notes sometime this summer. Between that date and today...
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Dec.21.2009
Next month I will be pitching my second novel to an agent at a writer's conference here in Southern California. Since this is the novel I believe will be my breakthrough piece, it is the one I most want represented by a respectable agent. Personally, I feel that the direct interaction with an...
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Nov.27.2009
The year I won the San Francisco Writer’s Conference pitch conference, I had just gained some really valuable information in a morning session. (I mentioned this in an earlier Write Nonfiction in November post.) The session was taught by writing-career-coach Teresa LeYung Ryan and public relations...
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Nov.14.2009
Let’s backtrack for a day to the all-important topic of pitches and query letters. I just received an expert blog post from agent Katharine Sands, editor of Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent's Eye, a collection of pitching wisdom from leading literary agents, and this one...
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Nov.08.2009
Nonfiction writers looking for traditional book publishing contracts—wanting to sell their manuscripts to small, medium or large traditional publishing houses, need to find themselves literary representation. While finding an agent may not be necessary for many small publishing houses that...
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Oct.24.2009
Dear Fellow Writers --
I spent the weekend of Oct. 23-25 at the Surrey International Writers Conference. What an event! Hundreds of attendees: published authors, speakers, agents, managers, and ambitious writers looking for publication. It was a surprisingly friendly and supportive group of...
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Oct.08.2009
I'm pleased to announce that I have been offered (and accepted) representation by Roger Williams of the Publish or Perish Literary Agency. Roger brings over thirty years of publishing industry experience to the agent table, and our common vision for my future work is entirely in sync...plus he...
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Sep.20.2009
Back to the meditations this morning, so here's today's:
Meditation 223
Twelve leaders,seven accountantsbut only two altars
for prayerjust about sums upthe church,
both thenand now.
Is it just me or is everything topsy-turvy in terms of standards? Ah well. Anyway, this morning I have finally...
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Sep.17.2009
I recently received a reader question that was so good I had to look it up. (I used to pride myself on being able to answer esoteric editorial questions on the spot, but it’s been a while since I’ve worked full time as an editor).
The Q: I would like to know why the copyright symbol is used with...
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