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Carving Up Your Popular Content to Reach and Satisfy Your Audience

February 24, 2021 //  by Barb Roose//  7 Comments

Right now, imagine your popular podcast episodes, blog posts or keynote messages as a delicious, juicy turkey sitting in the middle of the table at Thanksgiving dinner. Like that turkey, developing your podcast, blog or keynote required a lot of …

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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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Four Types of Rejection

November 8, 2020 //  by Rachel Kent//  10 Comments

When an agent sends a rejection letter, different types of rejections mean different things. Here’s the inside scoop, as I see it, on four main forms of rejection:

The Plain Old Rejection (usually sent for rejecting query letters):

This …

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Write-to-Video: 10 Ideas & Solutions to Create Captivating Video Content For Your Audience

October 12, 2020 //  by Barb Roose//  26 Comments

A few weeks ago, I decided to record a video of myself making a potato, corn and poblano pepper chowder. I channeled my inner-Millennial and sourced the recipe ingredients from my local farmers market. I roasted those poblanos and let …

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Getting Back on Your Wild Writing Horse

September 21, 2020 //  by Barb Roose//  15 Comments

Hi, I’m Barb. I’m new here.

If you read my interview with Janet last month, you learned that I’m the newest literary agent with Books & Such Literary Management. However, I’ve been with the agency as Rachelle Gardner’s client since …

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Minimize the Obstacles to Publication

September 16, 2020 //  by Rachelle Gardner//  52 Comments

Blogger: Rachelle Gardner

When you’re a debut author trying to break in to traditional publishing, one of the most important things to remember is this:

Minimize the obstacles.

You already know it’s not going to be easy to break in, …

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Tips to Stay Motivated

August 17, 2020 //  by Rachel Kent//  6 Comments

What motivates you to keep writing? We are all faced with the ups and downs that come on the roller coaster of publishing (and life), but when we get discouraged it can be tempting to just give up. Here are …

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Top Ten Ways to Declutter Your Writer Brain

July 9, 2020 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  22 Comments

blogger: Cynthia Ruchti

declutter your writer brainAre these THE Top Ten ways to declutter your writer brain? More accurately, they are a few of the ways. But that would have made the title too long and not great for search engine optimization. (SEO–We …

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Gardening, Writing, and Life

April 12, 2020 //  by Michelle Ule//  29 Comments

Blogger: Michelle Ule sitting in for Cynthia Ruchti–who is coping with snow and power issues.

I paused while gardening one day years ago, to open a letter.

“How’s your writing going?” a dear friend wrote.

gardening, writing, seed ideasPhoto by Markus Spiske (Unsplash)…

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How to Handle the Sting of Rejections

February 6, 2020 //  by Rachel Kent//  9 Comments

Blogger: Rachel Kent

After weeks, possibly months, of waiting for an answer to your submission, you receive a short, polite letter (or email) informing you that your project isn’t right for the agent or editor you were submitting to. Your …

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