Apr 7, 2016
Hi there Fuse fans! I’ve been catching up on my query inbox lately, and I thought I’d talk about something I’ve been encountering a lot, which is ‘personalization’ in a query that actually detracts from the query itself. It’s...
Apr 4, 2016
Thank you all for participating in our annual charity auction! Mental health is a cause that means a lot to us, our clients, and many of our readers and followers, and we consider it a privilege to be able to help. Since we launched Fuse, we’ve held a charity...
Apr 1, 2016
Today J.M. Frey was nominated for an Aurora Award and we couldn’t be prouder. The Aurora Awards are Canada’s national Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards and have been presented since 1970. Frey’s comic “Bloodsuckers” (Toronto Comics vol. 2) was nominated for best...
Mar 30, 2016
I asked one of our foreign rights agents, Rachel Richardson, of Rights People to blog about the Bologna Book Fair for us so we could all get a sense of it. The 2016 Bologna Book Fair begins April 4th! Learn more here. Every spring, thousands of publishers, agents,...
Mar 28, 2016
When you read that an agent is looking for manuscripts that sound similar to yours, it’s perfectly normal to get super excited and shoot off an email query with your samples pages. But instead of the “yes, please send me the full manuscript” response...
Mar 21, 2016
March is when we celebrate the first day of spring, and March Madness, and St. Patrick’s Day, and so much more. Like the anniversary of our agency’s founding 3 years ago. How, you may ask? By giving back. In case you missed Gordon’s post about it...