Top Ten things *Not* to do at a Writers Conference
1.     Not have a ready blurb

2.     Not know your market

3.     Not have three copies of the most important things in your writer’s world in your go-bag (see below)

4.     Not share your book blurb *because someone might steal your idea*

5.     Tell an agent you have the, *Next Bestseller* to show ( Read more... )

Just a few thoughts on the perfect agent, from my perspective.  I know writers who need a hand-holding agent, one who calls every couple of weeks to chat, to pass along news about the publishing world.  This is what I call a warm-and-fuzzy agent.  Not for me.

I have two agents and both understand I don't need hand-holding, but one agent is decidedly ( Read more... )

A first blog should be interesting and inviting and intense and should have lots of stuff about boots on it, but I'm nervous and so I'll just be quick today. I never wanted to blog, never read blogs before except for Misty Massey's and fell like ti's rather presumptuous for me to think that anyone would want to read stuff I think about. But maybe I ( Read more... )