Literary Agent

How To Follow Up With A Literary Agent

| Posted 05.30.2012

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From Writer's Relief staff: It’s hard to be patient when you’ve sent out a query letter and still haven’t heard back from your literary age...

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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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Price-Fixing Is Bad for Both Readers and Authors

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 04.30.2012

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Hoyt Hilsman

The truth is that this dispute is not about saving literature or the sanctity of the literary world, it is about the publishers' business model.

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The (Un)Romantic Path of Literary Fiction: Alfred A. Knopf (Part II)

Rex Pickett | Posted 05.26.2012

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Rex Pickett

I had never experienced "writer's block" in my entire life. If an idea -- screenplay or novel -- wasn't working, I just abandoned it and started on something else.

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Writer Wednesday: What NOT To Do If You Get A Literary Agent

Posted 10.24.2011

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From Writer's Relief staff: If you’re an aspiring writer, you’ve probably got an “I’d like to thank the academy” speech ready and waiting...

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Do I Really Need a Literary Attorney?

Arielle Ford | Posted 10.15.2011

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Arielle Ford

"Though publishers use lawyers to write the publishing contracts that authors sign, authors don't seem to realize they, too, need a lawyer to understand those same contracts."

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Writer Fakes Kidnapping To Promote New Book

The News & Advance | Posted 08.28.2011

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For anyone hoping to become a successful novelist these days, writing the novel is only the beginning. Getting it published just a step in the right d...

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Literary Agent Gets 6 Years In Prison For Cheating Authors

The Guardian | Steven Morris | Posted 05.30.2011

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A literary agent who duped budding authors and investors into handing over more than £500,000 for non-existent film and book deals has been jailed fo...

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Literary Agent Owen Laster Dies At 72

AP | By HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK -- Owen Laster, a literary agent and executive of old-fashioned self-effacement and integrity whose many clients included Judy Blume, Gore Vi...

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Behind the Scenes with a Literary Agent

Arielle Ford | Posted 05.25.2011

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Arielle Ford

To potential authors, agents can seem like the fairy Godmother, who guides the author's books along the path to greatness. Here is an insider's perspective of what an agent really does.

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WATCH: Have You Ever Read A Book?

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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"I'm going to write a novel." "For the love of all that is holy, why?" "Because I'm going to be a writer." And so begins the newest YouTube video sa...

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Conflict Of Interest?

publishingperspectives.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Wylie isn't the only agent moving into publishing e-books. Now Seattle-based agent Sharlene Martin, has also become a publisher as well as a li...

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Ralph Vicinanza Dead

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Ralph Vicinanza, a literary agent whose clients included Stephen King, Augusten Burroughs and the Dalai Lama, has died. He was 60. V...

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Agent Andrew Wylie To Be Immortalized In Comic In New York Magazine

New York Magazine | Boris Kachka | Posted 05.25.2011

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The superagent has yet to meet a publishing convention he didn't want to explode. ...

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eBooks: Pat Conroy's Bestsellers Released By Open Road

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Pat Conroy says he knows so little about e-books that he didn't realize his work could be downloaded until a fan showed him during a ...

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Amazon's eBook Deal With Andrew Wylie Bad For Business Says ABA President

Bookselling This Week | Dan Cullen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last week's news of literary agent Andrew Wylie's exclusive agreement with Amazon.com to publish Kindle editions of 20 backlist titles by notable wri...

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Former Obama Publisher And HuffPost Blogger Steve Ross Has New Role As Literary Agent

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — President Barack Obama's former publisher has a new job as a literary agent. Abrams Artists Agency said Thursday that Steve Ross is ...

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Beryl Bainbridge Dies: Dead At 75

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — The acclaimed British novelist Beryl Bainbridge, an acute and acerbic chronicler of human relationships, has died at the age of 77. Ed...

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Smoking Crack In Paris: EXCLUSIVE Unpublished Excerpt From Bill Clegg's 'Portrait Of An Addict As A Young Man'

Posted 05.25.2011

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Literary agent Bill Clegg's new memoir, "Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man," comes out today, June 7, and offers a fascinating look into the life o...

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Ever Wonder How Authors Use The Internet To Get Published?

SF Gate | Regan McMahon | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the old days - which, in this case, you might define as "two years ago" - getting your book published would entail finding an agent, sending it off...

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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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Stephanie Meyer, Harry Potter Discovered By Accident: Any Chance You'll Be Next?

Wall Street Journal | Katherine Rosman | Posted 05.25.2011

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In 1991, a book editor at Random House pulled from the heaps of unsolicited manuscripts a novel about a murder that roils a Baltimore suburb. Written ...

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Why I Don't Write a Book

Andrew Zack | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Zack

"Why don't you write a book?" This is a question I hear often, most often from my wife. So, I've been thinking about what my answer will be. And that answer is, "It's too hard."

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Literary Agent Urges Publishers To Hold Off On eBook Editions

E-Reads | Richard Curtis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Literary agent Nat Sobel, one of the most respected figures in his field, has issued an appeal to book industry leaders urging them to resist the temp...

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First Time Novelist Breaks All Rules with a Winner

Cynthia Kling | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cynthia Kling

"How Far is the Ocean from Here," by Amy Shearn has to be the weirdest, funniest saddest road novel I've ever read. A single 20-something agrees to surrogate for a pair of cozy yuppies.

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