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A Refresher on Writer Conference Do’s and Don’ts

June 26, 2022 //  by Barb Roose//  11 Comments

I’m sitting at my gate waiting for my overnight flight to take off from the Seattle Airport back home to Ohio. This is a perfect time to get this post written!

For the past few days, I’ve proudly served on …

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A Writer’s Blind Auditions

October 2, 2019 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  12 Comments

Blogger: Cynthia Ruchti

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Are you a fan of the reality competition TV show THE VOICE? Each season’s early episodes start with blind auditions. Four professional musicians/judges/coaches sit with their backs to the stage. They’re listening only to the …

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Great Bible Verses for Christian Writers

June 24, 2019 //  by Rachel Kent//  30 Comments

Blogger: Rachel Kent

Here are some verses that are wonderful for everyone, but I believe they can be especially helpful for Christian writers. I put a little line about when I think they could be helpful, but they could apply …

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Five Sure-Fire Ways to Get an Agent’s Attention

June 15, 2017 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  37 Comments

Five Sure-Fire Ways to Get an Agent’s Attention

Blogger: Cynthia Ruchti

five-sure-fire-ways-get-agents-attention, agent's attention, book proposals, writers, authors, success, representation, editing, guidelines, professionalismYou wanted my attention?

“You have my attention.”

What author wouldn’t want to hear that response? In the sea of queries, submissions, proposals, conversations, how can your submission stand …

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Who Needs an Agent?

May 1, 2017 //  by Wendy Lawton//  59 Comments

Blogger: Wendy Lawton

Just a couple weeks ago someone asked me if I see agents eventually going away. My answer may seem to be self-serving because I happen to be a literary agent, but no. I do not. I actually …

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What to Write Next?

January 10, 2017 //  by Michelle Ule//  36 Comments

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 …

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Confusing Agent Behavior

April 8, 2014 //  by Rachelle Gardner//  41 Comments

Blogger: Rachelle Gardner

Reader Laurie wrote: A friend of mine has an agent interested in her first novel, but the agent has not made an offer of representation.  Instead she has asked my friend to hire a book editor (done), …

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Writers Who Begin as Bloggers: An Agent’s Perspective

April 17, 2013 //  by Mary Keeley//  102 Comments

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Recently I was asked what agents think of writers who begin as bloggers. I am always looking for new, fresh voices and do investigate blogs as part of that search. I know other agents who frequent blogs …

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I Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Agent

May 22, 2012 //  by Wendy Lawton//  79 Comments

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If you hope for a significant writing career one of the best things you can do is to begin amassing a crack team. That would include an agent, maybe a publicity or social media consultant, a critique …

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Let’s Put the C Back in CBA: Watching That Ego

October 19, 2011 //  by Rachel Kent//  6 Comments

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Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

“Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an …

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