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Archives for March 2012
True Confessions
When our eldest daughter was learning about various religions in college, she told me that converts to the Greek Orthodox faith must make a lifetime confession. This would mean confessing all of your past sins. Don't worry -- joining our agency does not require a lifetime confession. However, we do need to know about your publishing past.
Poor Sales History
Poor sales of your books in the …
News You Can Use – Mar. 27, 2012
Differences in screen vs print reading contributing to illiteracy? - Chris Meadows asks some interesting questions about the future of reading.
Branding for Writers - A perennial topic that bears another look.
Trinity Broadcasting Sued by Granddaughter and Former Employee - Please. Not again.
Oprah's Endorsement Hurt Book Sales - Interesting perspective!
My Parley with Book Pirates - …
Fun Fridays – Mar. 23, 2012
Kids can say the darndest things about the Bible!
http://youtu.be/Ofbe158uk7k?t=2m48s
A Few Things Your Agent Needs to Know
You have an agent, but want to be low maintenance. You value your agent's time and hesitate to fill her in-box with lots of chatty emails or tie him up on the phone all day. I'm sure your agent appreciates you for being considerate.
Still, writing is a serious profession and a business. Therefore some personal events and occasions in your life are critical for your agent to know:
Happy …
Are We Speaking the Same Language?
by Karen Ball
I love languages. I started studying French in the 7th grade (“Bonjour, Monsieur DuPree. Comment-allez vous?), and by the time I had my double college degree in multiple-languages and journalism, I’d studied French (12 years), Spanish (5 years), and Russian (1 year). But I confess, I never expected to have to learn a new language when I entered the publishing …
News You Can Use – Mar. 20, 2012
Why Finish Books - I loved this essay! He had me at the picture of C.S. Lewis...
Why Your Book Isn't Selling - Suggestions from a book marketing expert.
The Publishing Industry May Not be Falling Apart After All - One author suggests that today's crisis sound awfully familiar. And underneath all the talk of seismic changes and Amazon, she has a valid point. If you click all the way through …
My Hat Collection
As an agent, I wear many hats and I love them all!
Miner's Hat:
Worn while picking through slush pile submissions.
Tiara:
Worn in celebration of gem discovery in the form of your marketable manuscript.
Gold Crown:
In celebration of signing you to be a new client.
It’s A Brave New World
I’ve been in publishing for lo, these many years (over 30), so you’d think the work would be pretty much second nature for me. No so! In fact, just this last week I did something completely new!
I edited a book, in four days, using Skype and Dropbox.
The amazing thing about this isn’t that the author and I got the book done so quickly, but that it was SO MUCH FUN! We parked on Skype for …