(Just a note, this post is from our archives. Some references and links may be from past years.) Aspiring writers always want to know why agents pass on sample pages. I figured I’d starting doing a writing tip of the week or the month – depending on how many good… MORE
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Well, this is a first. Now that I think about it, I’m actually surprised it hasn’t happened before now. What am I talking about? I just received an email from a writer who wanted to gift me his/her self-published electronic book on the Kindle. It’s a lovely gesture but I… MORE
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Last week my author Jana DeLeon, who has been digitally self-publishing her backlist titles, hit the USA Today Bestseller list at #98 for the very first time and for the very first novel she ever published: Rumble On The Bayou (originally published in 2007). And the big question is: How… MORE
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Last week my author Marie Lu came to Boulder, Colorado for the Breathless Reads tour — rather apropos given the event was on Valentine’s Day… There were four authors featured: Marie, Andrea Cremer, Jessica Khoury, and Brenna Yovanoff. They did short reads from a breathless scene from each of their… MORE
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As many of you already know, I was in The Big Apple last week speaking at Digital Book World. After Mike Shatzkin’s interview with me and Hugh Howey, I sat on a panel with my fellow agents Jane Dystel, Steve Axelrod, and Jay Mandel. My question was this: “What should… MORE
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