Feb 21, 2018
My crystal ball is telling me that not a lot in the publishing industry is going to change from 2017 to 2018. I think publishing was mesmerized by Washington politics in 2017 and were slow to make any forward progress of any sort. Not a lot of new ideas. No new...
Sep 18, 2017
Our first annual charity auction series has been a tremendous success. We’ve received a generous outpouring of donations from literary agents, acquisitions editors, award-winning authors, and other top publishing professionals, and most of them have been claimed by...
Sep 11, 2017
The Fall Nonfiction Writers Conference, featuring the theme “Marketing Mastery for Authors,” happens November 9th & 10th, 2017. This event is completely virtual; attendees participate via phone or Skype. Speakers for NFWC FallCon 2017 include: Jim Horan – Opening...
Jul 27, 2017
I’ve just had the good fortune to go to two conferences in a two-week period, and get to see clients at both of them. This in itself makes me inordinately happy. It’s not at all unusual for an agent and his/her client to never meet in person. So to get to...
Jul 18, 2017
Lauren Allbright’s debut middle grade novel was published by Aladdin/Simon & Schuster in June. Recently, she embarked on her own DIY book tour called the “Just Show Up” book tour (#justshowupbooktour). Today we’re talking to Lauren about...
May 29, 2017
One of the best things you can do in your query letter is to list some solid comp titles for your book. In the library world, we call these readalikes: books that resemble your book, or that fill in the blanks in the sentence “Readers of _______ and _______ will...
