About #AgentPay

June 23rd, 2010

There was a fascinating discussion on Twitter yesterday, started by Colleen Lindsay, who tweeted:
How would publishing change if agenting moved from commission-based payment to billable-hours? Discuss.
Amid all the hand-wringing, whinging, diatribes for and against, a couple of things got me thinking.
First of all, I’m very grateful to have come to agenting as an employee of [...]

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Can you know TOO MUCH about an author?

May 10th, 2010

I was paging through a website I follow regularly today, looking for a post I’d seen some time in the past, but without a clear sense of where or what it was. In brief: pretty randomly browsing. And over the course of my clicks, I came to know one blogger a whole lot [...]

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Ask Daphne! Twitter Lightning Round

April 28th, 2010

Sometimes, when I’m low on ideas for blog posts, I turn to you, my readers. And as always, you don’t disappoint. Here’s a few questions posed on Twitter:
LorelieBrown I know why I need an agent, but how do I succinctly explain to my spouse why I need one?
So that you can concentrate on [...]

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Twitter Advice

November 16th, 2009

I was a very busy KT this weekend, getting nearly caught up on all my queries. I’m not quite at the end yet, but I can see it from where I’m standing. Anyway, in the course of looking through about 200 queries, give or take, certain themes popped out at me, and certain [...]

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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. [...]

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