Here’s a guide to what you’ll need to know from the moment you get the “when do you have time to chat” email from an agent to after the offer of representation. I hope all unagented WriteOnCon writers will need this soon! WHAT I RESEARCHED BEFORE THE CALL: Agency...
You’ve had an idea for a novel. You can’t stop thinking about it. When you talk about it, it gives you goosebumps. You’ve nurtured it with coffee, sweat, tears, and occasionally even blood (papercuts: a hazard of the job). You’ve put your butt in that chair, laboring over the keyboard...
Everyone knows it can be hard for new writers to find an agent. I think it’s for this reason that many authors get so caught up in the desire to achieve that “I have an agent” goal that they forget to really think about what they themselves need from an...