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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.
I’m in the middle of straightening out …
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Over the last seven years, all categories of authors have seen a dip in income and in sales figures. That includes those who consistently have significant sales; those who are mid-list; and those who are newbies. …
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
One of the most difficult words for a writer to hear from an agent or from editors who’ve looked at his or her manuscript is, “Not this book.”
I can almost see the words running through the …
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
The ultimate decision-maker at a publishing house in whether to offer a contract has changed over the past several years. Having done my share of presentations at publishing committees, I soon learned that anyone can scuttle …
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Digital book sales are flat, and polls show that teens are much more prone to read physical books rather than digital ones. Those who proclaimed the death of the physical book when digital sales were skyrocketing …
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Editors often don’t have time to edit. You might recall that was the point of my last post. So what do they do when they aren’t getting to their editing?
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
The other day, my assistant, Michelle, asked me how an editor’s role has changed since my first book released, which was in the mid-1980s. Some of my responses surprised her; so I thought it might be …
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Agents tread where authors fear to go. That’s the observation I’ve made over the past two decades. Authors are more concerned about their relationships with publishers than agents are.
Not that we agents don’t care–we do. …
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
When I grew up, Labor Day represented a clear demarcation between summer and fall. We:
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Six years ago I wrote the following blog. I had to laugh when I reread it. What is the saying? “Everything that goes ’round, comes ’round.” I had to laugh listening to the comments I’ve heard lately …
