Sentences with phrase «literary agent experience»

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Becoming a literary agent requires you to have a broad base of experience.

She brings 20 years of business and publishing experience to her role as a literary agent and advocate for her clients.

Unfortunately, many have little to no understanding of the trade; most have no direct publishing experience, and the few who do, are frequently authors themselves who moved into agenting after seeing their own literary efforts fail to set the cash register ringing at the bookstores.

A lot of established literary agents don't have huge egos, but some of them do (and you're much more likely to see over-inflated egos with established literary agents than you are with their less experienced counterparts).

Basically my recent experience at finding literary agents and other places to help get your book / manuscript published.

Mark is a former literary agent with years of experience about query letters that worked.

Paul Fieldstein, literary agent with many years of experience in the U.S. publishing world, now operating a Northern Ireland based literary agency.

Who is Erika Armstrong and what else can you learn from her experience getting a literary agent and book deal?

I've had over 20 years of experience in publishing and bookselling and have been a freelancer for 14 years for a variety of professional clients (including literary agents, publishers, Reader's Digest, and literary scouts), and aspiring authors.

But I love what I do and I'm really good at it (that's not ego talking, but experience); I have a 95 % success rate helping authors get literary agents asking for more material.

That's because literary agents have the experience and skill to make quick decisions about query letters.

* Top literary agents work full - time, have many years of experience, and treat their profession as serious business (they aren't part - time agents with second jobs to make ends meet and they don't think of agenting as a hobby).

individual feedback and coaching from an experienced writer and teacher, and an experienced literary agent

I have four years of editing experience and have helped many clients sign with literary agents, several of whom have gone on to sell to Big Five publishers, as well as hit the USA Today Bestsellers» list.

Joelle DelBourgo, a literary agent and former top executive at Random House, is divided on the subject, with one very successful experience and others not so much.

I have six years of editing experience and have helped many clients sign with literary agents, several of whom have gone on to sell to Big Five publishers, as well as hit the USA Today Bestsellers» list and more.

I have six years of editing experience and have helped many clients sign with literary agents, several of whom have gone on to sell to Big Five publishers, as well as hit the USA Today Bestsellers» list.

Her publishing experience includes stints as a a literary agent and as an acquisitions editor.

Michael Larsen's How to Get a Literary Agent provides authors with an experienced insider's perspective and tips for locating, approaching, and convincing literary agents to represent them.

Our editors are carefully selected, with at least ten years of professional experience working directly with publishers, literary agents, various publications - as well as having published their own work.

These are forums and / or blogs where folks ask questions and provide information about their various experiences with some of the different vanity presses, co-publishing companies, publishers and literary agents.

I've read that some authors and some agents, too, have mixed feelings about pitch sessions, but I love them — not only because I can pitch my work, but because I get valuable information from every literary agent I talk to, and also because meeting agents as people helps me humanize the whole experience.

Our organisation was founded by author and former literary agent, Orna Ross, as a nonprofit endeavour, in response to her personal experience of taking her rights back from her trade publisher (Penguin) to self - publish.

Kelly Van Sant is a literary agent and publishing contracts expert with nearly a decade of experience in the industry.

Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience for readers.

We are a very hands on firm that uses its years of publishing experience to integrate a medium between a literary agent & a publicist.

Everything followed from Jonathan's ability to write a query letter that «sold» his project to an experienced literary agent who wanted to represent him!

She leads CT's Literary Group, drawing on thirty - five years of experience as editor, writer, publisher, and literary agent.

Work Experience (in alphabetic order): bartender, book reviewer, brain study subject, caretaker, carpenter, caterer, coach, conscript, counselor, editor, farm worker, fashion exec assistant, fish market packer, foreign correspondent, garbage compactor, gardener, grip, house painter, human rights researcher, journalist, lawn mower, library aide, lifeguard, literary agent assistant, mover, music teacher, office aid to Rabbi, proofreader, publishing intern, recycling inspector, road worker, sternman, stock analyst, stringer, substitute teacher, swim instructor, technology teacher, trail maintainer, transcriber, translator, tree planter, tunaboat crewman, tutor, waiter, website consultant.

Could you start by telling our conference attendees (and potential attendees) about your educational background and experience and what specifically led to your literary agent position?

For professional writers, looking for an agent is easy since they have the experience and the skills to take on the literary world.

I recommend exploring that route if nothing more than to gain experience and to conduct correspondence with numerous literary agents.

In the winter of 2003, after completing the manuscript of a literary novel based on my experience living in the Caribbean, I began searching for an agent, sending out a bunch of query letters as well as a few emails.

However, many less - experienced authors don't know when to get a literary agent or whether they...

These are literary agents, publicists, authors, publishers, and those who have decades of experience ensuring books get read.

Ashlock weighs the arguments from his experience as a key literary agent and architect of book campaigns, and hits an important conclusion:

These Christian literary agents have years of experience in the publishing field and act as mediators between the authors and the publishers.

Anna Knutson Geller has over fifteen years of experience in the publishing industry, ranging from editor to literary scout to rights director to agent.

Most authors who find a literary agent will work with the owner of a small agency who has experience in the publishing business and some experience in the agenting business.

Our hugely popular and successful 3 - month Novel Writing Course for debut writers returns in September, taught by Curtis Brown literary agent and novelist Anna Davis and experienced author Christopher Wakling.