One says goodbye; many more say helloooo! Today is literary agent Colleen Lindsey‘s last day at Fine Print Literary Management and last day as an agent, and she will be missed. But she has written a great post on her blog about her departure, detailing everything she has been doing to make sure her clients…
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News today that literary agent Colleen Lindsey of Fine Print Literary Management is leaving agenting — yep, not moving to another agency, but saying goodbye to that job and moving back into publishing. This sounds like great news for Colleen, and I wish her congratulations and best wishes on her new online job with Penguin.…
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Ok, don’t got too excited about that title. New agents are typically a great opportunity for unpublished writers, but this one might not be the agent you’re looking for. Introducing the Hannah Rogers Literary Agency, the “desperate writer’s last resort.” 🙂 This joke comes to us by Evil Editor. Browse around the site for a…
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Manuscript update: Writing has been slow as my husband has been sick and I’ve been distracted, but it’s coming. Current word count is 9,544, only 607 words more than my last post. My goal of being finished by the end of this month is looking unlikely, but no worries. Onwards… First, I’m participating in author…
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Manuscript update: I’m at 8,937 words, 1,723 words more than my last post, which was five days ago, so I’m way below my goal of 1,025 words a day. Sigh. To be finished by the end of this month, I have to write 1,150 a days. Don’t know that that’s going to happen, but we’ll…
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Manuscript update: After two pretty good writing sessions, I’m up to 7,214 words, so 2,260 in the last two days. Wow, that’s actually better than I thought. Got to write 1,025 words per day to make my goal of finishing by the end of May. Phew! We’ll see. Back in March, I told you that…
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Manuscript update: 4,954 words. Had a pretty good session yesterday. Today, I’m procrastinating with this blog post. 🙂 But then I’ll knuckle down. I think I’m behind if I want to meet my goal of finishing the first draft by the end of May. QueryTracker is hosting a pitch contest today with literary agent Chris…
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Manuscript update: Terrible! Yesterday was the first day I have worked on my new book in two weeks. I’ve been busy with www.discdish.com. But, who am I kidding, I’ve also been just a little — ok a lot — intimidated by this story. My first two novels are plot-driven adventures, but this is a quiet…
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Manuscript update: Still nothing new as I’ve been too busy with www.discdish.com. But I’ve got lots of ideas for I get back to the book. Some quick agent news: Bree Ogden has been made an associate agent at Martin Literary Management. She will represent children’s, young adult and graphic novels. Here’s some info on Bree,…
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