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The Library as Sanctuary
I'll be brief. Chances are, if you're reading this, you've benefitted from a library at some point. From story time in the children's section to armloads of chapter books to discovering science fiction to researching for a school project to using their computers to...
News Roundup
Some great things that happened in April!
“I Don’t Want to Be a Frog” is a star!
Er, well, received a starred review to be exact! Dev Petty's I Don't Want to Be a Frog, illustrated by Mike Boldt, was released in February and is doing tremendously well! This is one of the first books I sold to be released so it's a special thrill to see it being so...
Tell you what we want…what we really, really want
I recently took pitches at the Women's National Book Association Pitch-O-Rama in San Francisco and to give folks in line something to read to calm the butterflies in their stomachs, I produced a flyer that listed what each of our agents was looking for from writers in...
The First 10 Pages
Hey Fuse Fans! (I'm going to make that a thing.) A client update before I dive into the meat of the post: the lovely Tracy Clayton (Twitter sensation @brokeymcpoverty) is now one of the hosts of BuzzFeed podcast ANOTHER ROUND, which is getting rave reviews. You can...
What to Take Away from a Writers’ Conference
It's getting to be that time of year. AWP begins today, BEA is looming, and 3 of us were just at different conferences in the same weekend. While I love getting out and meeting writers, taking pitches and giving advice, I see a lot of attendees just not taking full...
Spring has sprung
Pre-order Rogue and a big MS4MS win!
That First Page
Every time you send a query, you hope that the agent or editor is going to read your first page--and the next one and the next one. To help writers with this, many conferences do a first page workshop. Some structure it like a Gong Show/American Idol kind of format...
Final Day to Bid in our Charity Auction
March 31st already? Well, that means it is the final day to bid on our manuscript and query letter critiques that benefit charity. 100% of the money you donate goes to the national Multiple Sclerosis Association. Since two of our agent-siblings have the dreaded...
10 Foreign Rights Tips
We received a really cool report from our foreign rights co-agent recapping the past year as it related to foreign book sales. There are four big book fairs each year--in Bologna, London, New York, and Frankfurt--where most of the foreign publishers gather to meet...
