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Four Things Agents Look for When Checking Out Your Website

March 5, 2023 //  by Barb Roose//  7 Comments

While social media seems to be where everyone is gathering online, your author website is still important for your writing career. Social media is like the car you drive around in to invite people to join you on the journey. …

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Eight Questions to Get to Know Your Audience Better

March 21, 2022 //  by Barb Roose//  11 Comments

Who is your book for?  

While this isn’t intended to be a trick question, the quizzical looks that I often receive from writers during pitch sessions suggest otherwise.

After a few moments of chin-tapping or staring into space, here are …

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Getting an Agent to Read Your Entire Query

March 17, 2021 //  by Barb Roose//  8 Comments

As a literary agent, I love seeing stacks of queries in my inbox. Like the other agents at Books & Such, I enjoy discovering unique book ideas, moving memoirs and fresh new voices. However, all literary agents must balance limited …

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The “Perfect” Query

September 8, 2019 //  by Wendy Lawton//  12 Comments

Blogger: Wendy Lawton

You’ve seen a number of agent blogs and agent twitters talking about query tips and #queryfail. Agent websites are filled with instructions on how and how-not to query. Nearly every writers conference offers a session or two …

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Swipe Left, Swipe Right

December 7, 2017 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  34 Comments

Blogger: Cynthia Ruchti

Swipe left or swipe right? People who’ve used Tinder (the app, not scraps of wood and dried leaves) are familiar with those questions.

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MedicalXpress.com notes, “Anyone who has used the dating app Tinder knows that swiping …

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Avoid These Lines in Your Query Letter

October 17, 2017 //  by Rachelle Gardner//  20 Comments

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I was going through my current batch of query letters, and while many of them are very good, it reminded me how difficult it is to write a strong pitch. You have to accomplish so many things …

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The Broken Query System

July 17, 2017 //  by Wendy Lawton//  50 Comments

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Broken things drive me crazy. Just call me the Fix-it Fairy. If something is broken–be it an object, a person, or a system–I have trouble accepting the state of brokenness. I want it fixed.

Last week I …

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Query Guidelines

July 10, 2017 //  by Wendy Lawton//  38 Comments

Blogger: Wendy Lawton

It’s been over 100˚for so many days even my brain feels hot. (Next few days?  104˚, 101˚, 100˚, 101˚, 100˚, 104˚, 106˚, 105˚.) In spite of sizzling summer I thought I’d tackle the question of queries again.…

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Quiz Time— How to Get an Agent

May 15, 2016 //  by Wendy Lawton//  47 Comments

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You expected Janet Grant today, didn’t you? Janet let me have her blogging day so that we could do a two-day quiz. (And you thought you were through with finals forever.)

We’ve often said that members of …

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Selling Tools

November 3, 2015 //  by Wendy Lawton//  47 Comments

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This month is the now famous NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month. This is the month many around the world will be focusing on writing a first draft of their novel. I don’t want to pile more …

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