New Orleans bedroom shoes by artist Jenni Dutton (background here) for Barb, this Friday’s About My Query author. As always, stay on target (That’s no moon!!) with your comments, with the goal of providing useful, constructive advice on how to improve the query below. Allons-y! Dear Ms. Agent, I’m seeking representation for my young adult [...]
Like all the other cool agents with blogs or on Twitter, I’m dealing with royal(tie)s. No dashing princes for me, these royalties, as you probably know already, are the accounting statements prepared by publishers that tell of the sales of an author’s book in the previous period. Right now, most of us are looking at [...]
I was clicking through my Google Reader earlier today and came across this post from EW’s Shelf Life blog, on the subject of “the explicit books teens read.” I read it, thought it made some good points, disagreed with one statement, and reminisced about my own teenage reading, in which I skipped right from Judy [...]
There’s a great scene in the Steve Martin classic movie The Jerk where he exclaims “The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here!” — because, you see, the new edition of the phone book has his name in it, and therefore proves he’s made it. He’s somebody. Well, I think every author has [...]
So I gave two workshops this weekend at the Douglas County Libraries’ Author Extravaganza. The first was much like a live version of an About My Query post, with my “do”s and “don’t”s of general querying tagged on as well. I quickly figured out that an hour was not enough time to go over general [...]
