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Oct.11.2012
This Book Baby post (Finding a Literary Agent) inspired these reflections.
Your situation may be different, but for me, this is an argument for skipping the whole process, which is why some of us created Thoth Books (named for the Egyptian god of writing seen at left). The kind of f2f...
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Aug.17.2012
This was going to be another mini-rant in the style of last year's complaint about some literary agents who have a "no response means no" policy, but then I started thinking. Over the past 8 years or so I've been in touch with maybe 20 literary agents, in the UK, US and Canada, and heard about...
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Jun.18.2012
Richard Nash, publishing savant, on how to get love from independents and the future of the book business with The Book Doctors on Huffington Post http://huff.to/L9iaLh
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Apr.24.2012
There’s a first rule in becoming an agent: “learn how to manage your client.” This is true of any entertainment agent: when you are invested in someone’s longterm career, you need to allow your client to dream big in the creation process but moderate expectations in the fulfillment of that...
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Apr.24.2012
Sometimes, its important for everyone to take their jobs less seriously. People feel very serious about publishing, but as my first boss said, “it’s not life or death, Lucy.” (Until that moment of relief, I thought it was.) And so with this post, I’m poking a little fun, while hopefully...
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Mar.26.2012
If you're a whiz at creating loglines, you can enter for a chance to win FREE tickets to the Broadway play SEMINAR starring Jeff Goldblum! (And yes, you can win the tickets for someone else!)
Contest details:
“What’s your novel about?” is the question aspiring writers hear over and over again at...
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Mar.18.2012
Authors and Writers
“Speed-Dating” by the Bay at our 9th Annual Signature Event
Back by popular demand: Keynote Luncheon (see below)
MEET-THE-AGENTS & ACQUISITION EDITORS
Lynn Henriksen, Event Chair, lynn(at)telltalesouls.com
Saturday, March 24th, 2012 • 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m...
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Jan.26.2012
Calling all writers! Just 1 more day to sign up for my UCLA agent panel this Saturday! Meet agents from the Hill Nadell Literary and Andrea Brown Literary agencies, Rob Weisbach Creative Management, and Global Literary Management. These agents represent authors of adult, children's and young...
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Dec.19.2011
Today we're discussing "Opening Lines" for novels with our agent panel from the LWC}NYC CLMP conference including Kate Garrick of DeFiore and Company, Evan Gregory of Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency, and Rene Zuckerbrot of Rene Zuckerbrot Literary Agency, LLC. These agents were kind enough to host...
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Nov.28.2011
Shortly after Renea Winchester released her award winning book, In the Garden with Billy: Lessons About Life, Love & Tomatoes, she realized that publication was just the first rung on the ladder of writing success. Whether a book was traditionally or self-published, in the end the author's...
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