I will be closing to queries for the summer as of midnight on Friday, May 25th. Any queries received after midnight (Mountain time) on Friday will be deleted unread. If I can figure out how, I will set up an auto-response. Otherwise, this note and a revised submissions page will have to do! Enjoy your [...]
There’s a phrase that’s common in the tv world, describing that nether-world between when a series has been cancelled or renewed: On the bubble. I thought of it last night watching the season finale of Community, which I love (six seasons and a movie!), but which I couldn’t help but notice was framed well for [...]
I’m still going through recent queries — I’ve responded to everything before April 21st, and most queries before May 7th — but for those of you that may still be revising, or polishing your material, I wanted to send out an early notice that I will be closing to queries for the summer, from Memorial [...]
Reposting from Tumblr, because it’s worth it. “A little boy… sent me a charming card with a little drawing. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. [...]
On Twitter yesterday, Penguin executive editor Anne Sowards posted “An offer I made was turned down. Everybody gets rejected.” And it’s worth reiterating — rejection isn’t just something that happens to authors. Rejection happens to agents, when we fall in love with a manuscript only to find the author already has multiple offers of representation, [...]
