I wrote this guest blog last year for Babes in Bookland (hey, all!). Since it’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, having just turned in the second book in my Latter-Day Olympians series, I thought I’d reprise it here. Hope you enjoy! Action Distraction I don’t know about you all, but I dreadContinue reading “Action Distraction”
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Ditto
Author Cat Valente has a post over on Charles Stross’s blog about “Work Is Never Over: On Publishing and Its Many Faces.” Since it is both a) wonderful and b) says everything I feel about the biz, I’m sending you over there today with a great big, “Ditto!” from me.
How to Talk to Agents
I’m going to let a couple of my clients talk today instead of me: Vicky Dreiling and Amy Christine Parker. As Vicky will tell you in her “How I Got My Agent” post, she and I met several years ago at a conference – not at a pitch session, but at a meal after theContinue reading “How to Talk to Agents”
Interview
Today I’m interviewed over on Martha J. Ramirez’s blog as both author and agent.
More congrats and happy book birthdays
A HUGE congratulations to Chloe Neill, whose novel DRINK DEEP won the Young Adult category of the CAPA Awards! (While the Chicagoland Vampires series is not truly young adult, it has a graduate student turned vampire heroine and is very young at heart…not to mention wonderful.) Also, post-Valentine’s day, love is still most definitely inContinue reading “More congrats and happy book birthdays”
Congratulations are in order
… to N.K. Jemisin for her Nebula Award Nomination for Best Novel for THE KINGDOM OF GODS, the third book in her already award-winning Inheritance Trilogy. …to Ramez Naam for the sale of his debut science fiction novels NEXUS and CRUX to Angry Robot Books. So excited for you both!
Where am I this time?
Happy Presidents’ Day, everyone! I’m over at Magical Words today exercising my right to free speech, talking ’bout reader respect.
Priceless…
So brilliant I wish I’d written it myself: “A Private Letter from Genre to Literature” by Daniel Abraham.
New and exciting
Two new and exciting deals to report this week (and a few more in the works for next week, so stay tuned): Vicky Dreiling’s next three Regencies with her trademark pop culture twist to Michele Bidelspach of Grand Central. and Croatian language rights to N.K. Jemisin’s award-winning novel THE HUNDRED THOUSAND KINGDOMS to Skolska viaContinue reading “New and exciting”
Why Your Work Never Gets Read as Quickly as You Want it to
Inspired by my status update this morning on Facebook and Twitter, I thought I’d give you another snapshot into the life of agents and editors, this one about why your work is rarely read as quickly as you like it to be. I’ll start with some specifics from my own personal experience. I represent fortyContinue reading “Why Your Work Never Gets Read as Quickly as You Want it to”
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