Hear me out. You are just the kind of writer the world needs right now, bound to break all bestseller records. Before this blog post is finished, you’ll see that there’s no one better, more skilled, or more successful than …
The Career Dangers of Missing Your Annual Writer Check-Up
Few of us are thrilled to keep our annual physical check-ups with our primary care physician, and sometimes that means a small issue goes unattended for too long and becomes a larger problem.
What are the career dangers of missing …
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What a Writer Doesn’t Know May Hurt Them
What a writer doesn’t know may hurt them?
What a way to kick off a blog post! Isn’t this supposed to be a place where writers find encouragement? It is. Keep reading. This isn’t click-bait. It’s essential to your success …
Writing When You’re Not Writing
If you’re writing this week, it’s either because you’re on a tight deadline, you’re stranded on a solitary island in the South Pacific and it just happens to have wifi, or you finished all your shopping and meal prep …
When It’s Okay for a Writer to Binge
Friends and I were discussing (okay, it was the other Books & Such agents) when it is and is not appropriate for a writer to binge. The conversation created–pun intended–food for thought.
We LOVE food for thought. One …
Health Tips for Writers
Our writers’ health tips in today’s post don’t focus on healthy platform numbers. And we’re not aiming for “At least I have my health” as a goal. But it is worth exploring what factors contribute to a writer’s literal health…and …
Expectations vs. Reality
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Do an aspiring author’s great expectations for a literary agent align with reality? Not always.
With a combined (estimated) 200,000 work hours devoted to serving the Christian publishing industry, we Books & Such Agents …
The Dreaded No
If an author were to compile a vocabulary list for writers in the making, or writers stuck in the middle, they might put the dreaded NO at the top of the list. To many, it feels as if they hear …
Random Agent Thoughts
Yes, this is a blog post of random agent thoughts.
A few weeks after my father’s heart stopped beating for the last time, we discovered among his office files a three-ring binder labeled “497 Random Thoughts.” Over the course of …
Words as Quandrums
Quandrum. If a quandry (perplexity in a difficult situation) and a conundrum (vexing question) had a baby, it would be…a quandrum.
Writers love words, but they’re less in love with words that are quandrums. “What does that mean?” “How is …