What Do You Expect?

December 3rd, 2009

Moonrat, otherwise known as Editorial Ass, has a brilliant post up on her blog today, entitled What Can I Expect of My Agent? Her big two must haves: Full Fiscal Disclosure and Comfortable Communication. Click through for the rest, including some frequently asked questions.
But what does that MEAN? Moonrat explains some, but [...]

Filled Under: Slushpile

Ask Daphne! When Is It Too Much?

July 8th, 2009

Swank, vintage-looking party shoes for Jamie, who writes with a thought-provoking question about social networking:
I am a big fan of social networking. No matter what I’m doing or where I am, I have my phone close by so I can check in with my twitter or facebook account to stay up to date on everything. [...]

Filled Under: Ask Daphne!

Secret Agenting

April 20th, 2009

In addition to going through a bunch of my own queries for Queryday last week, I also made a secret guest appearance on Miss Snark’s First Victim as her monthly Secret Agent. Authoress, aka the aforementioned first victim of Miss Snark, opened submissions early in the week and posted 50 first pages — about [...]

Filled Under: Slushpile

Who is this “Daphne” person anyway?

April 8th, 2009

Once upon a time there were two little girls who went to the University of Delaware. They were assigned very hazardous duties in publishing. But I took one of them away from all that and now she works for me.
Ok, not quite. Not exactly. But if you check out this link from [...]

Filled Under: Ask Daphne!

I may have been a tad bit premature…

April 2nd, 2009

In announcing on Monday that I was “back.” Suffice to say, my meetings on Tuesday and travel on Wednesday kept me a little too busy to sit down and craft a blog post.
Which I’m truly sorry about, what with Maureen Johnson’s “Blog Every Day in April” initiative, at which I ALREADY failed! But [...]

Filled Under: News, Slushpile