Blog Archive
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The Stages of an Edit
Nov 10, 2011
When signing the first contract, authors will always ask what’s next, what’s the next step in the publishing process, and usually it’s edits. While certainly every publisher and every editor is different, here’s what you can typically expect. Revisions: These usually come from your acquisitions editor, the editor who made the offer and “bought” your […]
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Workshop Wednesday
Nov 09, 2011
By repeated request we’ve started Workshop Wednesday. It will definitely play out through 2011, and beyond that we’ll just have to see. We’ve received well over 200 queries at this point, but we are choosing at random, so don’t be afraid to participate as per the guidelines in our original post. For anyone wanting to […]
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Submissions 101
Nov 08, 2011
I was reviewing the analytics on our blog to see what some of the most popular posts have been. The top of the list was Submissions 101, a post I wrote in 2009, and since a lot happens in two years, especially in the past two years of publishing, I decided it was time to […]
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How I Edit
Nov 07, 2011
We’ve been having a discussion in the office about how we edit our clients’ work and, not surprisingly, we all have different techniques. Since I just recently sent a 17-page revision letter to a client (yes, Jessica gasped as well) let me start by explaining how I edit manuscripts. I really like reading on my […]
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Finding Your Middle Editor
Nov 03, 2011
I learn so much from my interns—when I’m teaching them I often find I’m also teaching myself. Recently I asked one of my interns to write up a revision letter on a proposal for a client of mine. Part of the job was an exercise in revision letters and part of the job was to […]
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Workshop Wednesday
Nov 02, 2011
By repeated request we’ve started Workshop Wednesday. It will definitely play out through 2011, and beyond that we’ll just have to see. We’ve received well over 200 queries at this point, but we are choosing at random, so don’t be afraid to participate as per the guidelines in our original post. For anyone wanting to […]
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Gina Robinson on the Creative Spark
Nov 01, 2011
Gina Robinson The Spy Who Left Me Publisher: St. Martin’s Pub date: November 2011 Agent: Kim Lionetti (Click to Buy) The Creative Spark—How Do You Get Your Ideas? And Where Do They Come From? As a published author, the number-one question I’m asked by people who aren’t writers is a variation of “How do you […]
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Social Networking Is So Easy
Oct 31, 2011
We live in a world where everything changes daily and changes quickly. And just as those changes happen, so do my thoughts on the many opportunities available to us. When the blog post I wrote on Twitter v. Facebook posted, it made me think a lot more about the two places, and I think some […]
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Deal news!
Oct 30, 2011
Jennifer Harrington writing as Jennifer Delamere’s inspirational historical romance, AN HEIRESS AT HEART, in which a woman masquerades as a missing heiress and falls in love with the one man now forbidden to her, to Lauren Plude at Grand Central Forever, in a three-book deal, for publication in November 2012, by Jessica Alvarez at BookEnds […]
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The Archaic Query
Oct 27, 2011
When authors spend time together complaining about query letters, one of the things I frequently hear is how archaic the process is, how queries should be done away with in place of sample chapters. The irony of this statement is that the importance of the query has grown significantly over the past few years, which […]
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Workshop Wednesday
Oct 26, 2011
By repeated request we’ve started Workshop Wednesday. It will definitely play out through 2011, and beyond that we’ll just have to see. We’ve received well over 200 queries at this point, but we are choosing at random, so don’t be afraid to participate as per the guidelines in our original post. For anyone wanting to […]
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Taxes and Authors
Oct 25, 2011
Can you please tell me if a publisher takes care of income tax in royalty payments? Or is paying tax the job of the author or agent? As an author you are not an employee of the publisher, you are an independent contractor. Therefore you are responsible for filing your own taxes and paying them […]
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