Sentences with phrase «where editors and agents»

We also have a limited number of query letter critique spots — where an editor and agent team up to improve this critical document — as well as open seats for the Friday workshop on legal issues for writers, the editor Q&A panel, and the agent Q&A panel.

We also have a limited number of open Query Letter Critique spots — where an editor and agent team up to improve this critical document — as well as open seats for the Screenwriting Workshop, the Editor Q&A Panel, and the Agent Q&A Panel.

We also have a limited number of open Query Letter Critique spots — where an editor and agent team up to improve this critical document — as well as open seats for the Friday Workshop on screenwriting, the Editor Q&A Panel, and the Agent Q&A Panel.

Not exact matches

The conferences were where I learned how to correctly interact with agents and editors and how to use their feedback to improve my writing.

Poor Steven Zacharius, taking to the comment sections of the indiesphere in defense of publishing using all the old arguments that used to convince all the desperate aspiring writers that publishing is a haven where agents and editors will take care of you and together you will make Culture and be Important.

If you sign with an agent or a publishing house, and they don't like what the freelance editor has suggested, the writer then has to rework the manuscript, sort of like taking it back to where it was pre-money.

Going to a conference where agents and editors take pitches is one way.

Kathleen is an award - winning editor and agent who has been working in the publishing business since 1979 — first as an editor at W.W. Norton where she published DEAR AMERICA: Letters Home From Vietnam, which became an Emmy award - winning documentary, then as a senior editor at Poseidon, formerly a division of Simon & Schuster, where she published and edited Mary Gaitskill and Ursula Hegi.

Publishers Marketplace is an online database of publishing professionals where you can track deals, sales, reviews, agents, editors, and publishing news.

Kelly Harms is a former editor and literary agent where she worked with a wide array of bestselling and award - winning authors of commercial fiction.

Prior to becoming an agent, James Fitzgerald Literary Agent was an editor at St. Martin's Press where he published Generation X, John (Rotten) Lydon's autobiography and four of Leni Riefenstahls's books, Sarah Vowell and Ice - T, and Red Meat.

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I wonder if a changed world, where agents, editors, and publishers cater more to the needs of writers, might not be so far away after all.

Pettersson realized that there aren't many opportunities for English - language writers, editors, and agents to meet up in Sweden, where she moved to from Chicago twenty years ago, so she decided to create her own.

We still have seats open for the Query Letter Critique (where an editor & agent team up on May 12, 2017 to improve your query letter for the May 13 pitches and for future use); Workshop on May 12 about polishing your manuscript for submission or self - publication; Editor Q&A panel on May 12; and Agent Q&A Panel on Meditor & agent team up on May 12, 2017 to improve your query letter for the May 13 pitches and for future use); Workshop on May 12 about polishing your manuscript for submission or self - publication; Editor Q&A panel on May 12; and Agent Q&A Panel on MEditor Q&A panel on May 12; and Agent Q&A Panel on May 13.

Events where other authors and publishing professionals, such as editors, agents, and publicists, congregate also present great learning opportunities.

She agreed to read my ms based on revision letter comments from a couple of agents and a comment from an editor who'd brought the ms to the acquisitions table where it didn't make the cut.

Your website is a central hub where agents, editors, and fans can go to learn more about you and your writing.

In particular, Kathryn Rusch has a brilliant article where she uses a scarcity vs. abundance analogy to describe the publishing industry: most every writer, publisher, agent, editor, reviewer was raised in a scarcity model, where book shelf space was limited, publishing contracts few, and rarity was equated with quality.

You should also link to a place where agents and editors can find more about you and read more of what you have written.

The American Society of Authors and Writers: Where writers go to meet with publishers, editors, agents, publicists, and film and television professionals when they need inspiration, talent, news, and support.

This is the stage where your critique partners love your work, you're getting personalized rejections from agents or editors and highly complimentary reports from your beta readers, and yet... no sale or offer has materialized.

A simplistic description of the long road is that it's the traditional route where your book has to pass muster with first an agent and then an editor at a publishing house.

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.

Months and months if not years are spent on new versions, writing query letters and submitting to agents or publishers, and a fortune spent on going conferences (eg SCBWI — the international Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators) where manuscripts can be discussed with Top 5 editors and other industry professionals, and further expertise developed.

They create a friendly forum where aspiring authors can meet and talk casually and formally with agents, editors, and each other.

But others will take the new path and enjoy a new journey where no agents or editors exist to filter or distill the voice and vision of the author.

And new this year is the Flamingo Pitch Tank, where you get the chance to pitch your novel to every attending editor and agent at onAnd new this year is the Flamingo Pitch Tank, where you get the chance to pitch your novel to every attending editor and agent at onand agent at once.

This is the stage where your critique partners love your work, you're getting personalized rejections from agents or editors and highly complimentary reports from your beta readers, and yet....

Mr. Lescher epitomized a kind of Old World ideal of author's agent — courtly, literary and invisible — reflecting both his nature and his wealth of contacts in the book world, where he began his career as an editor and something of a wunderkind.

You can keep slogging for months and years, trying to get your work picked up by an agent and then on an editor's desk where you can hope to get a contract.

We have listings of book festivals where it may be worth your while to sell your work, and the best conferences to meet and mingle with literary agents and editors.

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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A: On Thursday afternoon following CraftFest, we will host PitchFest, where you can pitch your novel to some of the best agents, publishers, and editors in the business.

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.

I was talking about this the other day with someone, and I thought there might be more streamlined groups, where an author could find an agent, editor, publicist, etc., already working together.

That's a good litmus test for you, to see if your pitch is ready to be sent out in the form of a query letter and / or to be a verbal pitch in a conference setting where many agents and editors turn up these days to meet new writers, which they truly want to do at all times.

The traditional publishing model where there are several layers between the author and the readers, such as agents, editors, and publishers, is really stripped down to just a relationship between the author and the reader.

Query letters are pretty hit or miss, so it's better to spend money on going to conferences where agents and editors will be on hand to read submissions.