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11 Mistakes Writers Make When Approaching Literary Agents

| Posted 05.16.2012

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From Writer’s Relief staff: Let’s face it: Writing a book requires different skills than writing a query letter. While there are no “rules”...

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Writers Wednesday: 10 Ways To Annoy Literary Agents

| Posted 05.02.2012

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From Writer's Relief staff: In the tradition of David Letterman’s Late Show Top Ten, the submission strategists at Writer’s Relief want to shar...

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On Rejection and Renewal: A Note to Aspiring Novelists

Warren Adler | Posted 04.09.2012

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Warren Adler

The true novelist must continue to soldier on, keep writing, keep trying, taking the increasingly painful hits of rejection after rejection until ... well, until someone out there catches on ... or doesn't.

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If Agents Become Publishers, Who Protects Authors?

redhammer.info | Posted 08.09.2011

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In recent weeks, there have been a spate of agents who have cut deals on behalf of their clients with... themselves.  One such involved the agent to ...

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No More Calls, No More Meetings -- Ever?!

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 08.05.2011

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Dr. Susan Corso

Years ago I remember hearing about a CEO new to an international company who took all the chairs out of all the conference rooms as one of his first a...

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Do Writers Need an Agent for Success?

Lev Raphael | Posted 06.04.2011

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Lev Raphael

I started my career at a time when the conventional wisdom was that you couldn't even have a career without an agent. But experience has proven something different.

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Stop Kvetching. Self-Publishing Is Here To Stay -- And Vaulting Ahead

Bernard Starr | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bernard Starr

Yes, there's lots of junk among self-published titles. Let's be honest though. Traditional publishing also releases a lot of pollution.

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Ageism and the Oscar Party That Bollywood Would Throw

Martin Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Martin Lewis

What of the Oscar nominees and winners from past years who are no longer flavor of the month among the trendy young executives who run Hollywood studios? Why give valuable Oscar seats to them?

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In The Watson Era, Will The Computer Be Servant, Master, Or Savior?

Clay Farris Naff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Clay Farris Naff

I confess that in a quasi-religious way I have long been intrigued by the concept of a godlike computer, and Watson has kindled that interest back into flame.

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3 Step Plan to Clean Up Agent Problem

Jon Kerr | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jon Kerr

One of the most unfair punitive practices of the NCAA is to bring sanctions against a university, taking away scholarships and bowl games, well after the offenders have been fired or skipped town.

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So You Want to Be an NFL Agent?

Andrew Brandt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Brandt

How does an inexperienced agent or someone working for that agent get the attention of a top college football player? Cash is one sure way to get a player's attention.

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Writer Wednesday: 6 Ways To Turn Acceptances Into Rejections (PHOTOS)

Writer's Relief | Posted 05.25.2011

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From Writer's Relief: After years and years of watching our client list receive hundreds of acceptances per cycle, the staff of Writer's Relief fin...

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Picture Me -- Professional Models Battle In the Freakonomics Tournament

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Howard Steven Friedman

I recently chatted with director Ole Schell after previewing his latest film, Picture Me which opens this week in NY.

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Agent Oversight Continues To Vex College Sports

AP | ALAN SCHER ZAGIER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops suggests giving amnesty to college athletes who expose shady agents. A Florida sports agent wants national oversigh...

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No Sunshine on Sunstein's Dark Spots

Russ Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Russ Baker

Don't worry, Cass Sunstein was just playing around with his dark idea of government agents going undercover to shape political discourse. Or was he?

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Teen Empowerment Creates Agents for Positive Change

Suzette Standring | Posted 05.25.2011

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Suzette Standring

The regenerative power of youth can heal violence and kids just have to be empowered to do so. The Center for Teen Empowerment does just this -- giving kids a voice and hope for the future.

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Can You Survive Being Published?

Geri Spieler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Geri Spieler

I highly recommend reading Publish Your Nonfiction Book to any writer of nonfiction looking to get published for the first time as well as those authors preparing for a second or even third book.

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A Fine Mess

Arn Tellem | Posted 05.25.2011

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Arn Tellem

Trade demands are a necessary tool for protecting a client's interest. To deny an agent or athlete this basic freedom will only chill free speech and encourage further erosion of player rights.

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A Secret Service "Tell All" Tale

Geri Spieler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Geri Spieler

The latter part of this book's title, In The President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect should have been: Behind the Scenes With Agents Gossiping About Presidents They Protect.

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Conan O'Brien calls, The Jobs Whisperer, Stephen Viscusi for career advice, and hears these words: "Think Katie Couric": The Grass Is Not Always Greener!

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stephen Viscusi

By Stephen Viscusi I sit and daydream about the number of celebrities who have been calling me lately for career advice. Ever since "Up in the Ai...

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Conan O'Brien calls, The Jobs Whisperer, Stephen Viscusi For Advice on His Next Career Move!

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stephen Viscusi

By Stephen Viscusi I sit and daydream about the number of celebrities who have been calling me lately for career advice. Ever since "Up in the Ai...

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Publishing's Winner's Curse

Nathan Bransford | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nathan Bransford

If publishers can no longer accurately guess at an audience even for formerly safe categories like adult trade nonfiction, will they continue to gamble so much money on big advances for a small number of books whose success is increasingly difficult to predict?

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Advice and Constraint

Arn Tellem | Posted 05.25.2011

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Arn Tellem

Though the NCAA's no-agent rule is supposedly designed to protect athletes, all it really safeguards is the billion-dollar industry that the organization controls.

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Dirty Dancing in Hollywood

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Charlotte Safavi

Everyone has a Dirty Dancing story. This is mine. In the mid-'80s, a year out of Oxford University and a year into an investment-banking career, I decided to dance.

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Writers Conference for Teens and Twenties? You bet!

Naazish YarKhan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Naazish YarKhan

Teens 'N Twenties Writers Conference (TNT) to be held Sept 19 in Indiana, reflects its dynamic abbreviation!

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