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Q: When you request a partial submission or a full submission based on the query and first ten pages, what makes or breaks the submission? ...

Q: Would you say there's a fine line distinguishing whether something is actually genuinely YA or whether, MC age aside, it's just f...

The manuscripts I want are very often desired by multiple agents, and those (in my experience at least) are pretty much always The Usual Sus...

I've spent the last couple of days trying to power through my slush pile, and I actually managed to get through all pending queries. So ...

Q: Are chapter books a tough sell for a debut author? What if they are 10,000 words? Q: Are Nonfiction picture books possible to sell? What...

Some big news for Kate. 2010 E.B. White Read Aloud Award winner Kate Messner's SILVER JAGUAR SOCIETY series, in which a group of kids...

Q: There are lots of agented writers on AbsoluteWrite and other forums, posting anonymously and expressing their concerns about lack of comm...

At the conference I went to last weekend, I got asked this question above any other: What kind of books, exactly, are you looking for? I si...

Today in one of my critique sessions, an author asked me if, from an agent's perspective, it was "OK to be an unpublished writer....

I'm on my way to the NESCBWI conference in Fitchburg, MA, tomorrow. Cue lots of Thoreau-related humor (from me). Meanwhile, here'...

Twitter Q: If a query is rejected, are follow up questions such as "Do you know of agents who would be interested?" appropriate?  ...

Tweet-Q: Would you rather rep a writer with a deal on the table? I heard this is ideal for 1st. I don't presume to speak for every agent...

Q: I've been noticing that at least in the "writers forum" world, male writers are seriously outnumbered by women who write. I...

Q: When you get form rejections from agents, how can you know if your manuscript is unpublishable crap or if you just haven't found the...

I've had this account for five years, just so that I could comment on other people's blogs. But... you know. I have things to say, a...