Blog Profile / Guide to Literary Agents
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Blog Post Archive
Gnome Attack Roundup: Analysis of the First Six Months (Part 3)
How o Survive a Garden Gnome Attack CONTINUATION OF MY SIX-MONTH ANALYSIS : Almost six months ago, How o Survive a Garden Gnome Attack was released into the wild. It has been an interesting, and sometimes incredible, six months. It's...Show More Summary
New Agent Alert: Anne Bohner of Pen & Ink Literary
Reminder: Newer agents are golden opportunities for new writers because they're likely building their client list; however, always make sure your work is as perfect as it can be before submitting, and only query agencies hat are a great fit for your work. Show More Summary
Pitch Perfect: How to Craft Your Book's Hook
Want your book to stand out from the crowd? You’ll need a hook. If you handle it right, this will be your dream editor or an agent’s first impression of your book. It’s what sets you and your work apart from everyone else. Sound good? It is. Show More Summary
How to Make a Positive Impression at a Writers Conference
“Agents are human too.” If you’ve been around agents for any amount of time, you’ve undoubtedly heard this phrase. Writers say it about agents, agents say it about themselves … but rather than considering it a brush-off joke or cliché,...Show More Summary
My Adventures in ... Lexington, KY
This past weekend, I spoke at the Carnegie Literacy Center in Lexington to a great crowd of writers (who were probably smiling so much because of UK's advancement to Elite 8). We spoke about all things relating to getting an agent. This is my second year speaking at the center, and I just had another blast. Show More Summary
Live Near Cincinnati or Northern Kentucky? Come Meet Me at the Boone County Library on April 5, 2011
If you live anywhere near Cincinnati or Northern Kentucky, come out to meet me for my speech on "Everything You Need to Know About Agents," as well as "Query Letters." It all goes down at 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 5, 2011, at the Florence Branch of the Boone County Library, located at 7425 US 42, Florence, KY. Show More Summary
Epiphany: I Have Found the Male Equivalent to Trashy Romance Novels, and They Are Trashy Rock Memoirs
I read Sammy Hagar's memoir, Red, on the plane rides o Tallahassee and back. I love Van Halen so much that I couldn't wait to read it. I would have paid $50 for the book. Tell you the truth -- it wasn't even that good. But it didn't have to be. Show More Summary
The Value of Beta Readers: How They Help You as a Writer and Reader
I've had the privilege of beta reading a lot of YA and MG novels lately. If someone had asked me to read their manuscript two years ago, I would have stunk at it. BIG TIME. But I've grown as a writer, and as a reader. I think it happens naturally. The more you write (and read), the better you become. Show More Summary
How I Got My Agent: Stacy Pershall
"How I Got My Agent" is a recurring feature on the GLA blog. Some tales are of long roads and many setbacks, while others are of good luck and quick signings. To see the previous installments of this column, click here. If you have a...Show More Summary
Agent Advice: Kimberly Shumate of Living Word Literary (Part I)
"Agent Advice" is a series of quick interviews with literary and script agents who talk with Guide to Literary Agents about heir thoughts on writing, publishing, and just about anything else. This installment features Kimberly Shumate...Show More Summary
My Adventures in Tallahassee...
I just got back from the Tallahassee
Writers Conference in Florida. The weather was nice, the town was abuzz with Florida
State's performance in the tournament, and the conference seemed to be a good success.
There aren't a whole lot...Show More Summary
New Agent Alert: Sarah Sper McLellan of Folio Literary
Reminder: Newer agents are golden opportunities
for new writers because they're likely building their client list; however, always
make sure your work is as perfect as it can be before submitting, and only query agencies
hat are a great fit for your work. Show More Summary
Gnome Attack Update: New York Times Mention, and "How to Gnome-Proof Your Office"
I set up a Google Alert for my name a while back. Google Alerts
are wild. You never know what you're going to find out there on the Internet. So I
was surprised to get a recent alert that said the New York Times Book Review had
mentioned my book. Show More Summary
Use Amazon to Boost Your Book Sales -- Webinar March 24, 2011
Brick-and-mortar bookstores are having their troubles, but that doesn't mean fewer books are being sold. It just means people are looking to new channels for how their purchase their books. The biggest channel anywhere is, of course,...Show More Summary
Why Writers Need Book Bloggers
Before my novel, The
Local News, was published, I was flummoxed by book bloggers. I didn’t get
hem. Weren’t there already enough reviewers shouting in the online wilderness via
Amazon and Goodreads and Shelfari and LibraryThing? At what...Show More Summary
What Writers Need to Do Besides Write
As writers, we tend to focus entirely on the manuscript. We sweat over it, we curse it, and we pace the floor worrying over one sentence, or even one casual phrase. Because of this obsession, we often believe that our Dream Agent, he...Show More Summary
Live Near Houston? Come to the Houston Writers Guild Conference (May 7, 2011)
If you live anywhere near Houston, check out the Houston Writers Guild Conference on May 7, 2011. I will be there giving presentations as will a bunch of agents and editors. Keep reading to learn more. DETAILS This is a one-day event on Saturday, May 7, 2011, in Sugar Land, TX. Show More Summary
How I Got My Agent: Lisa and Laura Roecker
"How I Got My Agent" is a recurring feature on the GLA blog. Some tales are of long roads and many setbacks, while others are of good luck and quick signings. To see the previous installments of this column, click here. If you have a...Show More Summary
Creating Active Characters in YA Novels
Have you ever heard an editor or critic refer to a character as passive? Maybe, like me, you've found yourself frustrated by this term. What exactly does it mean, and what's so bad about creating a passive character? Isn't this a trait we...Show More Summary
Agent Advice: Doug Grad of the Doug Grad Literary Agency
"Agent Advice" is a series of quick interviews
with literary and script agents who talk with Guide to Literary Agents about
heir thoughts on writing, publishing, and just about anything else.
This installment features Doug Grad of the Doug
Grad Literary Agency. Show More Summary