I cannot tell you how SUPER EXCITED I am have been asked to share what little I know my wealth of knowledge on this topic!! Seriously though, I've had three wonderful agents for various lengths of time (one of them still claims me as his client - thank you, Eric Myers!) and I'd be happy to share what worked (and what didn't work) for me. If you're ( Read more... )

If you're anything like me, whenever there's a "situation" in life, I'm always evaluating whether I should say something to the person or if I should just stay quiet.

Examples:

• You overhear daughter's boyfriend say something rude to her - ignore or comment privately to daughter?
• Someone you don't know well has lipstick on her teeth - say something ( Read more... )

When a writer announces a book deal, everyone always asks, "So how'd you do it ( Read more... )

I finished my novel and am subbing it around, which means I'm in the dreaming/planning stage of the next. I'm rereading one of my favorite advice guides: Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass, romping through my idea file, and toying with several teaser ideas to see which, if any, might have wings.


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Finally, you decide you're ready. You've chatted about your novel with your agent, made sure she's on board with your premise, and revised until your fingertips are bloody. (Okay, so that's an exaggeration, but pretty damn long ( Read more... )

No, I'm not pregnant (thank you, God!), but I'm bursting with writerly happiness.

Yesterday goes down in the record books for one of my stellar writer nights of my life thus far.

Here's how the day went:

8:30 - I met my fascinating, wonderful, smart, pretty, and articulate literary agent Jen Rofe from ABLA for the first time. Squee! We hugged! She was ( Read more... )

As many people might have heard, Michelle Andelman left the Andrea Brown Literary Agency to pursue a different career in the book world. She was very insightful and gave me great suggestions to improve my manuscripts, and I wish her the best of luck. But her job change left me temporarily in no-agent land which was very scary.  Luckily, the dream ( Read more... )

Okay, so I wasn't actually underground, but I feel like I still have dirt under my nails from trying to crawl out from my revision coffin ( Read more... )

Okay, so I was out of my mind with excitement when Michelle Andelman of Andrea Brown signed me almost two months ago. And while I knew that having an agent would be great for getting into closed houses (even though we haven't started submitting yet), there are a few more perks I didn't know about ( Read more... )

So the news is out: Michelle Andelman from Andrea Brown Literary Agency is now representing me. We spent 90 minutes on the phone talking about my books, my career plans, her plans for me, and it was all simply WONDERFUL ( Read more... )