Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office; Santa Rosa, Calif.
Thank you all for participating in the blog this week! I’ve really enjoyed your comments. Today I’d like to extend yesterday’s conversation just a little bit. I believe …
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Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office; Santa Rosa, Calif.
Thank you all for participating in the blog this week! I’ve really enjoyed your comments. Today I’d like to extend yesterday’s conversation just a little bit. I believe …
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Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I am so excited to move forward in my career as an agent. I dream of helping my clients to grow, and in the process I know I …
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Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Yesterday we discussed hard parts of agenting; now we can focus on the good ones! Here’s a list of three of my favorite parts of the job:…
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Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
In the past three years of agenting, I’ve figured out what is enjoyable and what is hard for me. I’d like to share both with you, but I …
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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
Agent blogs often talk about the writer’s side of finding an agent. We don’t often talk about the agent’s side–finding the perfect project, the perfect writer and offering representation. Much …
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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 …