Apr 8, 2015
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...
Apr 6, 2015
It’s Passover and Easter was yesterday. That means it’s time for Spring books. I can’t wait. Fuse Literary has the release of Julie Kagawa’s ROGUE coming up on the 28th of April. We could not be more excited. Harlequin TEEN is doing a great...
Apr 2, 2015
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...
Mar 25, 2015
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...
Mar 19, 2015
After a wonderful two years at Fuse, I’m sad to announce that our own Jen Karsbaek is stepping down as an agent due to unforeseen family obligations. She will remain on the Fuse staff as a literary scout but will no longer be accepting new queries. Jen had this...
Mar 18, 2015
In about a week, I’ll be heading back to the University of Wisconsin, Madison for their annual Writers’ Institute conference. And while logic might frown on leaving California for the Midwest in early spring, I’m excited to revisit what has...
