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Sometimes people say "YOU CAN'T GET AN AGENT UNLESS YOU KNOW SOMEBODY!" or "YOU CAN'T GET AN AGENT UNLESS YOU ARE PUB...

Desperate in Vermont asks: What do most authors DO at bookstore events? Do they simply read from their work? Or do they tell stories about t...

UPDATED 5/9/12: The lovely Laura L. Sullivan has changed her website so it now features the info I highlighted in this post. So now the exam...

I've seen a lot of outraged links this weekend to a certain commentary by Orson Scott Card. Frankly, I don't have the energy to find...

You know the old saying. It isn't just sound egg-maintenance theory. It also applies to many things in the writing life. Including wri...

I complained the other day on Twitter about Courier font. Here's my problem with Courier : Aside from being rather ugly (to me), it is...

Every time I go to a writers conference, I give the same advice to newbie kids book authors: Read read read. Have patience. Don't foll...

darrellcurts asked: I know I am getting way, way, WAY ahead of myself considering I do not have an agent or publisher but, how long shoul...

Hey there kids -- So as you may have noticed, I didn't do an open thread this month. (You may also NOT have noticed, in which case I f...

I was blotting the fact that it is already FEBRUARY out of my mind, but here we are. 2012 just got real. And in celebration of a new month, ...

Look, I keep my private life private, but let's just put it this way: I am a city girl. I have lots of different kinds of friends, with ...

HOW is it 2012 already?!  WoWza.  IT'S THE FUTURE. And... it's time for another Open Thread! You know the drill, kids -- ask me ...

Q: HELP. I am scared my agent is about to drop me. WHAT DO I DO? I gave basically this answer to somebody on a message board recently but r...

Paraphrased from a ton of queries: "I'm sending this to you exclusively. You're the only agent to see this because I know we...

Q: I have an agent I love, although she's not had success (yet?!) selling my book. The ever important question: what is appropriate for ...

 Q: I know that some agencies are a "no from one is a no from all", but... what if I want to query more than one of the agents any...

Hey kids, I realize that I never did one of these bad boys for September... whoopsie! I guess we all need a break from the usual routine n...

First of all, don't forget that the contest to win a full set of BRILLIANT FALL OF GIANNA Z is open until 8pm tonight. Get on it, kids!...

So I've resisted the siren call of Tumblr for a while, but... I realized that I want a place to specifically talk about books that are N...

From Twitter: "[I] stopped reading a blog after the 2nd sentence, "being an agent is less about art and more about money." @ ...