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| Huge news. RT A judge just ruled that unpaid internships violate minimum wage laws: HT |
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| O authors! Starting your query with "Dear Agent" is one of the fastest ways to an autoreject. (Others include CCing 20 agents on one email.) |
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| My cousins are raising money to complete a film about the Gay Liberation Front: Please RT. |
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| Folks, if the guidelines call for works of no less than 70k words, why send in your 60k word novel? |
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| I'm not even going to rant anymore about people who "pre-query" rather than check our submission guidelines. Nope, not gonna do it. |
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| Attention writers! I am open to queries again! Please read what I rep & my submission guidelines before querying: |
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| Sometime your long list of conferences you've attended makes me think more about your class privilege than your dedication. |
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| Iain Banks: 'A star whose light will travel a long way' |
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| If you 'have' to send me your full ms because the first 50 pages 'don't do it justice' you should probably work on those first 50 pages. |
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| A gentle reminder to let agents reviewing your material know if you have/accepted an offer of representation from another agent. |
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| Related: let's all take this moment to laugh/cry together over the monstrous myth that "publishing slows down in the summer," okay? |
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| Dismayed by rude librarian rejecting donation of two boxes of new novels. Kudos to charming librarian at library #2! |
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| So many times I can see the raw talent, starting to emerge as real skill. But almost isn't quite enough. Always hope those ones stick w/it. |
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| Sometimes, wish I could tell an author: You have talent. But this feels like the book before the 1 you get published. |
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| Here's a tip for "indie" publishers. You know how when you turn on your program for the cover and it has a default font? Don't use that one. |
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| Was so busy I forgot to note the Penguin Random House deal was finally approved in China, which means deal closes in July. Get ready. |
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| I'm anonymous so I can be overly blunt or non-politic sometimes w/o worrying about it reflecting on the agency. |
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| Sources at SFWA tell me the Bulletin WILL change. "This isn't a facelift. We're completely nuking it" & rebuilding from scratch. |
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| Speak out against individual writers like the ones making these proclamations, but remember the org is much improved from 10yrs ago. |
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| In no small part thanks to folks like and hordes of others. |
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