By Wendy Lawton
A few conundrums in our industry have caused my brow to furrow a little more of late. No, I’m not worrying about them, but I am seeing some trends that bear watching. As you know, the author …
Setting Goals for Your Writing Career
By Wendy Lawton
As agents, we often talk about our roles in career planning. That is often misunderstood. There are aspects in our control and aspects completely out of our control. Let me list a few of those:
Goals within
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The Glamorous Life of a Creative
By Wendy Lawton
I’m feeling inspired and ready to creatively tackle a complex project I’ve needed to tackle for a long time. My muse, you ask? Why I spent the weekend cleaning out closets, reorganizing the pantry and cleaning toilets. …
Quick Character Labels
By Wendy Lawton
I was reading a fiction manuscript last week that quickly described a character as a cripple. I winced when I read the word and stopped to think about why I had such an immediate revulsion. After all, …
Proposal Prep– Your Marketing Plans
The Case for the Book Proposal
Last week, Janet Grant wrote about the importance of writing an excellent comparative book section in your book proposal. You can find that post here. Those kind of specifics are invaluable.
But I can almost hear the collective writerly …
The Demise of Book Collecting?
By Wendy Lawton
Books as disposables. Nothing could be sadder.
Did you catch the the suggestion regarding books reportedly made by Marie Kondo, the organizing guru who hosts the Netflix show, Tidying Up? I read that she suggested that, ideally, …
The Reality Month
By Wendy Lawton
January– the month after a glut of holidays and the temporary cessation of work. Anyone finding it hard to get back into the swing of things? Back to reality? I wrote about this a few years back …
Taking a Break
by Wendy Lawton
If you happened to send an email to one of our agents, you received an out-of-office message. And we’re not even traveling to a conference or to a publisher. We are taking our annual two week Christmas …
When Things Go Wonky
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Interesting title, yes? You might be wondering why I’ve posted a wonky warning today. I am simply anticipating what may happen to this blog. Let me explain.
The Relaunch of booksandsuch.com
Our newly revised website goes live …