Blog Archive
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Meet Buford
Oct 17, 2014
The last in a five-part series introducing the BookEnds team. Buford BookEnds Hound Tagline: I’m a big-headed beast with an even bigger heart. How long have you been at BookEnds? since June 2014 Do you have a favorite book? I don’t read, but when I first came into the office I immediately grabbed Sally MacKenzie‘s Loving […]
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Meet Jessica Alvarez
Oct 15, 2014
Jessica Alvarez Literary Agent, BookEnds Tagline: Whipping novels into submission.* *Special thanks to Peter Senftleben for coming up with the tag line If your dream submission were to arrive in your inbox today what would it be? I have to admit, my tastes are fickle. Today’s dream submission could be different than tomorrow’s. […]
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Meet Kim Lionetti
Oct 14, 2014
Kim Lionetti Literary Agent, BookEnds Tagline: Puts the “chic” in book geek and the “bestseller” in storyteller… What book characters would you want to have as your love interest, best friend and arch nemesis? Love interest — Darcy is too easy an answer, so i’m going with Julian McCabe from Phyllis Whitney’s SNOWFIRE, because he’s […]
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Meet Jessica Faust
Oct 13, 2014
The first in a five part series introducing the BookEnds team. Jessica Faust President & Founder, BookEnds Literary Agency Tagline: I’m part Vampire, part Beast, all professional pain in the ass. **credit to Janet Reid and Kim Lionetti for helping create this tagline. Book Concepts you can’t resist: dark, creepy and different serial killers, magical […]
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15 Years
Oct 10, 2014
Today, for lack of any really official date, BookEnds is celebrating 15 years. While I never doubted we’d make it this far and this long, I can’t believe it’s already here. It feels like just last week I was riding the subway in Brooklyn hashing a scheme to get out of the rat race and […]
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The Problem with Feedback on Rejections
Oct 09, 2014
I’ve seen a lot of agents write blogs on the problem with giving feedback on rejections, or the answer to why they don’t give feedback. Primarily it’s a consideration for time with most agents. One I completely understand. That being said, I do make an effort to give some sort of feedback on every partial […]
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Saying It Loud, But Not Proud
Oct 08, 2014
I suck at grammar and punctuation. There you have it. I said it. Grammar rules are like algebra to me. I get the basic concepts, but for whatever reason I can’t really grasp them. I’m so bad in fact, that an old high school teacher of mine once cornered me at a cocktail party (I […]
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Getting a Taste of the Writing Life
Oct 07, 2014
I think the best thing about the blog for me is the taste I’ve gotten of what it must be like to be an author. Coming back to the blog only accentuated that feeling. After Monday I can now say that I have a clear understanding of what it must be like to be an […]
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I’m Baaaaaack!
Oct 06, 2014
This is probably harder for me to believe than it is for you, but after more than two years and lots and lots of thinking I’ve made the decision to come back. Well I’ve made the decision to test the waters a bit and see if coming back to blogging is something I really want […]
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ETERNAL — Shadow Falls: After Dark
Oct 04, 2014
Second book in the continuing adventures of Della Tsang and all of the beloved characters of the New York Times bestselling Shadow Falls series.
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The Mythology of Grimm by Nathan Brown
Sep 23, 2014
NBC’s hit television series Grimm pits modern detective Nick Burkhardt of the Portland Police against a cast of terrifying villains—lifted directly from the pages of classic fairytales. In the world of the show, the classic stories are actually a document of real events, and Nick himself is descended from a long line of guardians, or Grimms, charged […]
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