This week! Books! As thousands of people around the world continued protesting injustice and brutality in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and at the start of Pride month, J.K. Rowling decided to double down with views on transgender people widely seen as transphobic, first in a series of tweets, then on a more […]
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Tips if you’re struggling to write right now (This week in books)
This week! Books! It’s really difficult to concentrate these days and few people I know are as productive as usual. Anne R. Allen has a great post on why it’s so tough to write right now as we deal with our collective grief, and she has some tips on how to keep moving forward. In […]
Write what makes you excited (This week in books)
This week! Books! First up, thanks everyone for all the well wishes this past week, they meant a lot. I’m doing much better now and things should start picking up again around here. (And I’m still available to edit your work). Being sick these past few weeks has not been fun at all, but I’m […]
Literary agents behaving badly (This week in books)
This week! Books! First up, congratulations to Angie Thomas, whose wonderful novel The Hate U Give just marked three full years on the New York Times bestseller list! Incredible. (Here’s my interview with Angie from a few years back). The fallout from the COVID-19 coronavirus hit the Bologna Book Fair, an important venue where agents […]
Why some authors have agents but no books (This week in books)
This week! The books! First off, I am very pleased to announce the winner of the Amusingly Humorous Book Title contest! Congrats to Jason, who successfully worked the referee and the voters with his clever play on my newest book: How To Book a Pub: 41 Rules For Successfully Booking A Pub That You Will […]
How agents prep for an offer of representation (This week in books)
This week! Books! Writing! MAGIC. … Okay not magic. You have probably spent a lot of time imagining what it’s like receiving an offer of representation from a literary agent. But what’s happening on the agent’s end? Literary agent Jessica Faust shows what’s going on behind the scenes as an agent prepares to offer. Publishers […]
