Recent Posts Tagged With 'reps'

• Ultimate First Paragraph Challenge

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 07:44 in writing, reps

  As a writer, when you stumble upon a blog contest called the "The 3rd Sort-of-Annual Stupendously Ultimate First Paragraph Challenge" you can't help but take a second and find out what's going on. Nathan Bransford, literary agent at Curtis Brown, rec...

• Stuffing envelopes

  Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 22:10 in reps

  For some time now, probably a couple of months, I had a number of 9x12 envelopes, filled with two letter-size sheets of illustration samples, sitting in my home office, waiting for address labels and query letters. I printed the query letters a while...

• Another year

  Posted on Thursday January 1st, 2009 at 11:16 in illustration, reps

  Let's see... JenWriter (now just Jen Hayley, I guess) was kind enough to answer my questions about agents, namely about how agents handle future work. She mentioned that, once accepted, an author could just send her agent proposals of an idea, befor...

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  Posted on Monday December 29th, 2008 at 13:35 in reps

  Firebrand Literary is trying something a little new this holiday season: a holiday from query letters. Instead of sending the normal one page query letter and hoping to get a request for a partial, for a limited time only, they're letting folks send ...

• Work, work, work all the time

  Posted on Tuesday December 16th, 2008 at 14:15 in writing, reps

  I've been sick (I had a lingering cough that wouldn't go away) and swamped at work, so I haven't spent much time in the writing arena. Then again, it's nice to get a break here and there, I think. I realize that many (if not most) authors need all ki...

• Resurrect book 1?

  Posted on Friday December 12th, 2008 at 08:48 in reps

  Something just occurred to me the other day. As I mentioned before, I discovered several more agents on QueryTracker.net [Note: I think I've been writing ".com" but it should be ".net"] that I didn't know about when querying my first book. Which mean...

• More things about agents

  Posted on Friday December 5th, 2008 at 09:09 in reps

  This morning, I went through QueryTracker's database of agents, isolating the ones that represent children's and middle-grade books, and added some more that I thought would be even remotely interested in my kind of story to my query list. They defin...

• Irksome trends

  Posted on Wednesday December 3rd, 2008 at 07:26 in reps

  I've noticed a few, shall we say, "trends" as I research agents and send out queries. Some just random facts, some are actually getting irksome. Here's a few.1) Agents are looking for great writing.This is a small thing, but it's kind of annoying in ...

• A lot less talk...

  Posted on Tuesday December 2nd, 2008 at 09:58 in reps

  ...and a little more action, as the Elvis song goes.I did my bellyaching yesterday, but this morning I got busy and sent out some queries. I have to say, though, that I wish agents had a standard when it comes to sending queries. Some prefer snail ma...