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ANNOUNCING the 25th Anniversary Hook Winners!
We had 317 hooks submitted to our writers’ contest, and these 25 are our winners:
Suzanne Anderson, Debbie Ashley, Hilary Bernstein, Peggy Bodde, Susan Brehmer, Kurt Bubna, Karen Bucci, Jolyn Canty, Jessica Ferguson, Katharine …
I wrote this blog post several years ago. Somethings remain the same over time, including the various types of literary agents a writer can choose from. Here’s the post:
Yesterday I had a conversation with Dee, a potential new client. …
I love the story of Arthur the stray dog! Perhaps you’ve seen it in the news, too? Arthur joined a team racing 430 miles in the Amazon jungle after he was fed a canned meatball by one of the …
Finishing a query is big deal! You’ve spent hours in front of your computer wrestling the words that capture your passion, imagination and life experience into a query letter.
To give your dream the best chance of getting an agent …
blogger: Cynthia Ruchti
Have you been regularly testing the website waters to make sure your author website is doing its job well?
We’re not talking Google Analytics or SEO or meta-data and keywords for this round of testing. Instead, we’re …
Do you feel scattered? Are you bordering on burnout? Has someone in your life said, “I’m worried about your pace of life”? As a confirmed do-er, this has been a personal battle of mine since I began writing decades ago. …
Here at Books & such Literary Management, we work hard to stay positive and non-judgmental in our interactions with potential clients but there are a few things that annoy us no end. Let me enumerate three for you.
Contacting an …
While an author hopes that the text of his or her book is all that’s needed to clearly communicate with the reader, in actuality, sometimes ancillary parts of a book can add much to the reader’s engagement with your book. …
I recently discovered Hoopla (thanks, Michelle!), and borrowed the audio version of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins. It was a book that I knew I didn’t want to own, but wanted to read to stay current …
For the past week, I’ve interviewed some fabulous future authors who participated in the Publishing in Color Conference, a Christian writers’ conference for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous People of Color) Christian writers. More than once I was asked, “What are you …
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