On The Blog
Prophecy Girl Release Day + contest!
Around a year ago today I became a literary agent. Laurie McLean gave me access to her query inbox and with CJ Redwine's help I found Cecily White. I read her book over a weekend day and forced Laurie to read it. She agreed that it would be a great first book to shop as a new agent.
I later sold that book to Liz at Entangled.
Today, that book is out in the world. And I love it dearly.
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But... you're just a blogger.
Foreword Literary, Inc has three bloggers turned agent. Book Blogger is how we choose to identify on social media, and therefore that is how people perceive us.
On the day we launched Foreword publicly Ann Kingman asked who was going to do the first story on book blogger agents and is that a viable way for bloggers to get into the industry. My immediate response was hell yes! For others it is a black mark on a record, an immediate outcry of assuming began
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On Foreword and moving forward
In case you missed the news I have left Larsen Pomada and am starting my own literary agency with the help of a few awesome agents and partners.
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Cover reveal: Olivia Twisted by Vivi Barnes + gift card contest!
Email! I love you, I hate you, I want to be your frenemy
I get so many replies, Tweets, Facebook comments and such about the fact that I answer every email I receive from authors. And while that makes me feel fancy, and it lets me know that at least some of you think I'm doing a good job, I started thinking about the reasons that an agent might go with no response.
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Earlier Reviews
- Small Presses and Querying
- New Adult!
- On advice from interns
- Five year blogging anniversary!
- On boy books. Otherwise known as OMG SOMEONE THINK OF OUR BOY CHILDREN!
- New year, resolution thoughts, and a query charity thing!
- Inbox update
- Christmastime
- Newtown
- End of the year type post.
- Pin it and Do it: Holiday Book Tree
- Query closure
- Book Sale
- That is so Pinteresting...
- The one that got away
