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Themes Schmemes Part II

October 27, 2009 by Nathan Bransford 169 Comments

I have reached some sort of blog milestone in that I was halfway through writing a blog post about some writers focusing too much on the themes of their book in queries before I realized….. something felt a little familiar. Then I realized: I’d written the exact same post before. Right down to the blog […]

Filed Under: Query Letters Tagged With: How to Find a Literary Agent, How to Write a Query Letter, Ian McEwan, Junot Diaz, Marilynne Robinson, writing advice

This Week in Publishing 7/18/08

July 18, 2008 by Nathan Bransford 32 Comments

This week… in publishing. Well, of course. Just when I buy a Kindle the rumors surface about future versions. Oh, the humanity! Speaking of e-books, a few weeks back I linked to an article on a seriously cool e-reader called mibook, only in doing so I remarked that they had a strange website. Well, someone […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Book Trailers, E-books, Junot Diaz, Kindle, publishing industry, This Week in Publishing

This Week In Publishing 4/11/08

April 11, 2008 by Nathan Bransford 25 Comments

THIS week in publishing… So after my snit on Tuesday during which I complained about query quality as the world’s smallest violin played in the background, I would like to update you that as the cosmic fates would have it things have very much improved in both the quality of queries and my own temperament, […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Junot Diaz, This Week in Publishing

When in doubt: Query me

November 1, 2007 by Nathan Bransford 102 Comments

UPDATE: Hi all, I’m no longer an agent, so this post no longer applies. I’m no longer accepting queries. In the comments section of yesterday’s post, Josephine and I were talking about the types of genres I prefer. Some agents definitely do have very clear genre delineations about what they do and don’t represent and […]

Filed Under: Literary Agents Tagged With: How to Write a Query Letter, Junot Diaz, literary agents, monkeys, Twilight

Waiting for the next big thing

October 3, 2007 by Nathan Bransford 30 Comments

Hello all! I know we’d normally have a You Tell Me on Wednesday, but then the subject line would have been something along the lines of You Tell Me How You Like to Unwind After a Crazy Week of Lunches and Meetings, and, well, I didn’t know if that would be the most useful thread. […]

Filed Under: Publishing Industry Tagged With: Dan Brown, Harry Potter, Junot Diaz, publishing industry

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