Blogger: Mary Keeley
You know the feeling. You’re plugging along feeling like you’re doing okay, and then a disruptive thought pops forward from the back of your mind, haunting, accusing: This isn’t good enough. What were you thinking? The Bible …
Agents
Be Diligent and Let Your Agent Do the Talking
Blogger: Mary Keeley
Publisher mistakes happen. Oversights occur. Disagreements with your publishing team take place. Delays cause negative ripple effects. Any one of these can have a detrimental, sometimes devastating, effect on your book during the production process. Not if…
A Winning Strategy
Blogger: Mary Keeley
Agents often remind writers to be patient during the journey to representation. But it doesn’t stop there. We continue to remind our clients on their journey to publication…or re-publication…as well. This isn’t only wise advice or a …
10 Ways to Annoy a Literary Agent
Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
You’ve heard all the ways to impress a literary agent. You’ve learned how to write a synopsis and build a platform and comment on agent blogs. You know the ins & outs of queries and proposals and …
You’ve Got the Power
Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
Authors working with a traditional publisher can sometimes find themselves in situations they feel are out of their control. Fortunately when you have an agent, you’re NOT powerless. You have someone to whom you can turn—someone who …
13 Ways to Impress an Agent
Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
You’ve been trying to crack the code for getting an agent’s attention, whether in a query or a face-to-face meeting. You’ve been searching high and low for the secret to making an agent sit up and say …
How to Find an Agent
Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
I asked readers on my Facebook page for questions they’d like me to answer on the blog. It seems many are dying to know the secret to getting an agent.
Stephanie asked: What is the single most …
Your Hook: the On/Off Button in Your Proposal
Agents Understand Rejection
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Last week I wrote about what to do when your query letter is rejected by agents. This week I’d like to remind you all that agents experience rejection, too. Each day we receive rejections from publishing houses …
What Your Proposal Says about You
Blogger: Mary Keeley
Writers communicate volumes of information between the lines and paragraphs, in what is there and in what is missing in their proposals. Today, I’ll let you in on some of the first things agents and editors notice.…