By Wendy Lawton
A new year. A new decade. Doesn’t it feel like time to touch base, time to plan, time to talk about what the year may hold for each of us? Your agent will tell you, however, that …
Authors
The Writer Who Speaks
Blogger: Cynthia Ruchti
Writers speak. Speaking in public remains a perennial item on the list of things-I-think-will-kill-me-or-worse for many people, writers included. A writer who is able to communicate clearly on paper does not instantly translate into a natural speaker.…
Fruit Loops for Writers
Blogger: Cynthia Ruchti
Fruit loops? Not the cereal. The cycle.
Whether or not you adhere to the premise that the Bible is practical for daily life–pick a subject, any subject–I personally see a strong correlation between what it teaches and …
Goal, Motivation, Conflict: The Importance for Authors
Goal, Moviation, Conflict
by Cynthia Ruchti
Every novice novelist soon learns about goal, motivation, and conflict. The mysterious GMC factor drives a good novel. And it isn’t produced by General Motors Corporation.
Debra Dixon wrote a classic resource for writers–…
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Do You Communicate Too Often with Your Publisher?
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Finding the right balance between communicating too often or not often enough with your publisher is a tightrope authors walk all the time. With varying degrees of success.
Over-Communicating
I’m in the middle of straightening out …
Two Agents Answer Your Questions
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Janet Grant let the cat out of the bag yesterday about our new book, The Inside Scoop. I decided to follow up and tell you a little more about the process and the book.
The Challenge…
What to Write Next?
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Sitting in for the traveling Wendy Lawton
I’ve spent most of the last week in a flu delirium haunted by a nagging question, “what to write next?”
As I floated in and out of consciousness, heroines whose …
Trend Spotting
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
As Lauraine Snelling and I traveled last month, visiting bookstores all across the Midwest, trend spotting was unavoidable. In fact we were gobsmacked by one particular trend in the Books A Million store in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. …
A Writing Career Retrospective
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
In our continuing celebration of 20 years as a literary agency, I’d like to periodically introduce you to a few of our first clients. I think seeing the course the river of a writing career has …
Safety Tips for Writers
Blogger: Rachel Kent
When your book is published, you are a public persona. You suddenly have fans, and people from all over contact you. Your publisher expects you to put yourself out there as much as possible on the Internet …