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Battle Back from Writer Burnout!

May 5, 2025 //  by Barb Roose//  8 Comments

“Give your strengths a stage to shine and keep your weaknesses from stealing the spotlight.” – Barb

As a writer, you wear many hats—social media, marketing, interviews, newsletters, income generation, speaking events, and more. Deep breath. There’s so much you …

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Does Your Writing Career Need a Diet?

January 4, 2021 //  by Barb Roose//  20 Comments

Does your writing career need to go on a diet so that it can get stronger again? 

It’s no secret that losing weight is one of the most common new year’s resolutions. The resolution is triggered by an ah-ha moment …

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How to Rescue a Writing Career

June 18, 2017 //  by Janet Grant//  22 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Over the last seven years, all categories of authors have seen a dip in income and in sales figures. That includes those who consistently have significant sales; those who are mid-list; and those who are newbies. …

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What It Takes to Succeed in Publishing

February 12, 2017 //  by Janet Grant//  37 Comments

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I recall seeing a television program that included a segment about a Vietnam War POW who, during eight years of imprisonment and torture,  mentally created plans for building his family’s dream home. He didn’t just work …

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Great Writing Career Expectations

October 16, 2016 //  by Janet Grant//  18 Comments

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If you read the book, What to Expect When You’re Expecting, you probably were motivated to do so to glean as much detail as possible from those who had gone where you had not yet …

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Can a Writing Career Be Planned?

October 2, 2016 //  by Janet Grant//  33 Comments

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What does an agent mean when she says career planning is a big part of what she does with her clients? Isn’t that a bit like saying you paddled your boat through the Colorado River white …

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Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World

A Writing Career Retrospective: Joanna Weaver

September 11, 2016 //  by Janet Grant//  26 Comments

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As we tumble into the fall of 2016 and continue the 20th-anniversary celebration of our agency, please join me in taking an instructive look at the writing career of one of my first clients, Joanna Weaver.…

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A Writing Career Retrospective

May 1, 2016 //  by Janet Grant//  52 Comments

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In our continuing celebration  of 20 years as a literary agency, I’d like to periodically introduce you to a few of our first clients. I think seeing the course the river of a writing career has …

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4 Writing Careers: A Retrospective

January 31, 2016 //  by Janet Grant//  37 Comments

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Since 2016 marks the 20th anniversary of our agency, I thought you would enjoy a behind-the-scenes peek at some little-known details. Among my ruminations about the agency’s past are my first clients. Looking back on their …

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The Kiss of Death: Renaissance Writer

October 9, 2012 //  by Wendy Lawton//  32 Comments

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Books & Such agents and staff are on a writers’ retreat with our clients at the Monterey Plaza Hotel this week and lavishing them with attention. (See photo below showing the view from the hotel.) We’ll be …

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