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Books into Movies Redux

December 1, 2019 //  by Janet Grant//  19 Comments

A year ago, I wrote a blog post about my ventures of turning books into movies. I stumbled across that post a few weeks ago and realized a lot has happened and an update might be offer more insight into …

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Out of Office

June 26, 2017 //  by Wendy Lawton//  16 Comments

Blogger: Wendy Lawton

As you read this on Tuesday I’m on an airplane winging my way to ICRS– the International Christian Retail Show in Cincinnati.

I’m guessing that when clients call or email and get their agent’s out of office …

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Shame Off You!

February 16, 2016 //  by Wendy Lawton//  79 Comments

Blogger: Wendy Lawton

I spoke to two different clients last week who apologized for not being in touch and/or not getting me things. I also got some requested proposals from last year’s writing conferences that opened with “I’m sorry to …

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Being Gutsy: An Insider Looks at Publishing

April 26, 2015 //  by Janet Grant//  66 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

The publishing committee for the fledging publisher was small: four people. They sat not at a boardroom table but in a circle of chairs in the publishing executive’s office.

The marketing director shuffled through her sheaves …

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Leave Room for a Future: Characters and Plot

April 10, 2015 //  by Rachel Kent//  42 Comments

Blogger: Rachel Kent

I have been reading Lois Lowry’s The Giver series. I read The Giver when I was in junior high and really enjoyed it and only recently saw that it is part of a series. The Giver was …

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Christmas Books are Here (With a chance to get a free book!)

October 3, 2014 //  by Rachel Kent//  100 Comments

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Our clients’ Christmas releases are starting to arrive at the office. A couple of weeks ago, we received agency copies of Tricia Goyer, Sarah Sundin and Cara Putman’s Where Treetops Glisten and also An Amish Second Christmas…

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Dreaming of Travel Because of a Book

August 1, 2014 //  by Rachel Kent//  71 Comments

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I have many travel dreams that are born from books I’ve read and that I hope to fulfill someday. I have been to quite a few places in my life, but currently travel isn’t as easy with …

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Book Research

July 11, 2014 //  by Rachel Kent//  45 Comments

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I just finished reading a brand new historical romance by a client of mine–it’s not the final draft–and sprinkled throughout the manuscript are little research notes for bits and pieces of history that she still needs to …

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What agents don’t tell clients and clients don’t tell agents

April 22, 2013 //  by Janet Grant//  82 Comments

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I was talking to Mary Keeley a few days ago about ways agents feel guilty in their relationships with clients. Then a light went on for me: Clients can feel equally guilty in their relationships with …

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A salute–and a challenge–to writers

March 11, 2013 //  by Janet Grant//  110 Comments

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The other day a business colleague phoned me to ask if I would get together with his twentysomething daughter. He described her this way: “She thinks she’s a writer. I don’t think she’s a writer.”

I …

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