Sentences with phrase «editors and agents post»

Editors and agents post the kinds of manuscripts they would most like to see cross their desks right now.

Not exact matches

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware I often receive questions from writers who are looking to hire an independent editor to polish their manuscripts, either for self - publication or for submission to agents and publishers, and want to know w... -LSB-...]

Guest post by Katie McCoach Sending your manuscript out to agents and editors for possible representation and publication is exciting, but mostly terrifying.

As noted in last week's post, if a writer takes to social media to do a hatchet job on an agent or editor and doesn't back up what they are saying, well, that author comes across as a prima donna and only does himself harm.

If they go forward, we post the review on our website, send it to many other venues, and consider it for publication in our monthly newsletter read by librarians, agents and editors and our column in Booklist magazine, which reaches 65,000 librarians.

As an indie and small press published author, I'm used to seeing posts from editors and agents claiming that you haven't earned the title of «author» until you've been traditionally published.

For authors who go with a traditional publisher, the publisher does the editing, so this guest post is about whether there's value in paying someone to edit before submitting to the traditional publishing industry (agents and editors).

Unlike previous posts, Umstattd's survey subjects included small to large publishing companies as well as literary agents and editors.

Bridget McKenna presents The Golden Age of Big Publishing (Not a Fairy Tale) posted at Points of View, saying, «There was once a golden age when editors edited, agents agented, and publishing companies thought beyond this quarter.

Take it from us here at Web Design Relief — literary agents, editors, readers, and fans will love your author blog when you begin incorporating these blog posts ideas!

This is a great blog post that I will be tweeting to my followers @digitaldeborah and will be recommending to my authors at offthebookshelf.com and WAENet.com the Writers, Agents and Editors Network.

Once the conference program is posted and registration opens up, take a look at the guest agent and editor bios.

In the next month or two, we will write a blog post about how to write a strong non-fiction query letter that will get you noticed by agents and editors.

It didn't surprise me that a number of editors and agents referred to the standard query letter format as «the hook, the book, and the cook» (as described in last week's post).

To help protect naive writers, reputable agents such as Richard Curtis put the AAR together, authors» groups like the MWA and SFWA support sites like Writer Beware, and sites like Preditors and Editors post updated information about who's being naughty and nice to writers.

«Publishers would become profitable in short order if entrenched agents and editors weren't allowed to have veto power over innovative proposals, running their jaded, cynical eyes over every hint of freshness, trained in being subservient lapdogs to master strategists holding the keys to the riches,» Shavani argued in the post, pointing out what indie presses and self - published authors alike have experienced: the gatekeeper mentality.

With your permission, BlueInk Review posts finished reviews to their website which is specifically designed to be user - friendly for readers, librarians, agents, and editors.

He summed up the takeaways in his post, «The last hardcover» which merits more rumination (preferably with several friends including an author, a publisher, and editor, an agent and a bottle of eighteen year old Laphroaig,) but absent the minds and the bottle of Scotch at 9:00 am in my study, I'll limit myself to an invitation and a few amuse - gueules.

Each day, she has incredible authors, illustrators, agents, and editors who write a guest post with inspiring thoughts and great writing tips.

In her post Friedman says if you plan on selling your work you need to ask the questions editors and agents will be asking, and you need to have the right answers.

In my last post, I discussed the process of the query letter to literary agents and editors.

The Absolute Write Water Cooler's Bewares, Recommendations, & Background Check forum is a popular online writers» community where writers discuss agents, publishers, independent editors, and others, and post information and / or warnings.

Given Jodie's post last week on unethical freelance editors, I thought it might be timely to re-examine what makes a good (and bad) agent.

If, for instance, you post an essay to a small writing website with limited members for constructive criticism, or use a message board to post a poem for critique — this probably won't deter some journal editors and literary agents.

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... 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I wanted to provide two tips that writers may find useful: For getting an agent and finding an editor, I wanted to mention that http://www.publishersmarketplace.com is a great place to look for what's going on right now, because that's where many agents post the deals they've made.

Interviews with authors / agents / editors / publishers (these types of posts are usually assigned and pay more)