I’m back!

Ok, not really, but I’m back in the States, and taking meetings this week with US editors, instead of international publishers. Which is a bit of a switch in my mind, really, since for the last week I’ve been talking about translation rights to books I’ve already sold in the US, and now I’m talking [...]

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Submissions Closed — for a little while

Not forever, just until I get back from my trip. As I mentioned in my live-blog yesterday: Please consider that any queries sent between March 19th and April 1st will not be looked at until April 2nd, at the earliest. I would consider it a great kindness if you just held off on any submissions [...]

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A Day at the Agents Center

So, yesterday, I talked a little bit about my preparations for the Bologna Book Fair. Today, because I’m so sure you’re wondering, I thought I’d go over just exactly what a typical day in the Agents Center at a big international book fair like Bologna is like. First of all, let’s toss out the notion [...]

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Rights Fair Preparations

So, as I’ve been twittering lately, later this week I head to NYC, and then on to Italy for the Bologna Book Fair. And while, yes, it’s Italy in the Spring, with all the good food, great scenery, nice weather and such that that implies, but it’s also a lot of work. Work I’m looking [...]

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On Frankfurt and Other International Book Fairs

Fellow lit agent Nathan Bransford is afk right now, but he’s got some great guest posts up on his blog right now, including this one from his Curtis Brown coworker Ginger Clark on attending the Frankfurt Book Fair.

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