Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
This month I’m celebrating three years as an agent at Books & Such! I started here at the agency as an intern in 2005, but was officially welcomed …
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Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
This month I’m celebrating three years as an agent at Books & Such! I started here at the agency as an intern in 2005, but was officially welcomed …
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
I’ve talked about agent limbo, logjams and brick walls. All part of the frustration of being a literary agent. I’m guessing those failures occur for all agents at one time …
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
Are you tired of me talking about the agent time crunch? Unfortunately, it’s the reason for much of the #AgentFail. Most of us have a set level of clients and, …
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
Here’s one of the questions asked at the writers conference I attended last weekend: If an agent asks to see the author’s book proposal but then never gives any feedback, …
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
If you frequent agent blogs or follow agents on Twitter you’ll see plenty written about the many ways writers fail. From terrible queries to brash behavior, from craft errors to …
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Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
What to keep track of before publication:
Even before you’re a published author, you need to keep track of many important items during the submission process. Charts and …
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
Problem: Catching the attention of an agent and getting him to ask for a proposal or manuscript.
Traditional Solution: Write a smashing query letter, send it to multiple agents and …
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
Problem: Catching the attention of an agent and getting him to ask for a proposal or manuscript.
Traditional Solution: Write a smashing query letter, send it to multiple agents and …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
The week of writing about crazy-driving scenarios wouldn’t be complete if I didn’t mention that sometimes the good folks at the publishing houses drive us crazy. …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Los Angeles
If you read my post yesterday, I talked about agents who poach clients from other agents. But another crazy-making scenario is when a client leaves an agent badly.
Every client an agent picks …