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On Craft and Caring11 comments

Amy Bai wrote 2 years ago: There’s a pretentious title for you, eh? Sorry, I’m feeling slightly ugh today, and this … more →

Tags: writing, Critiques, Getting Published, sensitive writers, Craft, caring about your work, Feedback, agents, Rejections

"The Talent Killers": The Litopia Dialogues3 comments

Mary W. Walters wrote 3 years ago: by Mary W. Walters In four podcasts originally aired May 4 to 7, 2009, I was interviewed by U.K. lit … more →

Tags: literary agents, Writers, agents, #agentfail, Publishers, Fiction, Royalties, advances, Literary Fiction

Never Get Laid Off with 'Director' in Your Title + Other Bookish Lessons from Colleen Lindsay14 comments

Kat Meyer wrote 3 years ago: Colleen Lindsay Writing for this blog rocks for a number of reasons, none the least of which is, I g … more →

Tags: Profiles in Convergence, Most Popular Posts, Publishing Insurgents Unite, Bloggers, Colleen Lindsay, Agent

The Talent Killers: Update #1 - comments and solutions from an unrepentant writer35 comments

Mary W. Walters wrote 3 years ago: by Mary W. Walters I have been amazed and perplexed by the traffic that has visited my “Talent Kille … more →

Tags: literary agents, Writers, agents, #agentfail, Publishers, Fiction, Royalties, advances, Literary Fiction

QueryDay Questions and Answers10 comments

Tara Lazar wrote 3 years ago: I’ve pulled together some questions and answers from yesterday’s QueryDay on Twitter. I … more →

Tags: Children's Writing, Fiction, Kidlit, literary agents, Publishing, queries, twitter, writing, Writing for children

QueryFail? Fail. Now it's QueryDay3 comments

Tara Lazar wrote 3 years ago: In early March, several literary agents, organized by Colleen Lindsay and Lauren E. MacLeod, partici … more →

Tags: writing, Writing for children, Creative Writing, Fiction, YA Fiction, Writing for Teens, literary agents, Kidlit, twitter

Queryday advice round-up1 comment

camille wrote 3 years ago: I stopped watching #queryday somewhere around 9p.m. last night, just couldn’t look at the scre … more →

Tags: Industry stuff, twitter, agents, #queryday, queries, Advice

Queryday on twitter...

camille wrote 3 years ago: Having followed the original #queryfail, I was really looking forward to today, as it is #queryfail … more →

Tags: Industry stuff, Misc Stuff, twitter, Entitlement, #queryday, doing it wrong

Today is #Queryday!

nmessina wrote 3 years ago: Attention writers and book industry lovers this is your blog captain speaking. Today is #queryday (f … more →

Tags: queries, #queryday

FailFail

butterfludget wrote 3 years ago: We can only hope we have this when the Amazombies actually do start taking over the world. see more … more →

Tags: Humor, amazonfail, #agentfail

The Talent Killers: How literary agents are destroying literature, and what publishers can do to stop them432 comments

Mary W. Walters wrote 3 years ago: by Mary W. Walters Dear Senior Editor, Any Major Publishing House, Anywhere: I am a member of a grow … more →

Tags: literary agents, advances, #agentfail, agents, Fiction, Publishers, Royalties, Writers

How to Get Published in light of #queryfail

emmalee1 wrote 3 years ago: #Queryfail saw some literary agents, book editors and periodic acquisition editors tweet about queri … more →

Tags: literature comment, #agentfail, finding a literary agent, submitting a manuscript

This is Not a Scene from Mean Girls: what #queryfail and #agentfail really say about the literary world

aliteralgirl wrote 3 years ago: I’ve been semi-following the #queryfail and #agentfail debacle for some time, with guarded int … more →

Tags: writing, Books, Insecurity, the guardian, #agentfail, Jean Hannah Edelstein

Grumbling Big Time5 comments

Carol wrote 3 years ago: I’m having trouble digesting that the blogosphere is still reverberating with reactions to #queryfai … more →

Tags: writing, agents, Frustration, Writers, #agentfail, Professionalism

Agentfail and Queryfail

runicriter wrote 3 years ago: In my august and just opinion, this is a fucking tempest in a teapot. For crying out loud… I m … more →

Tags: #agentfail

Being Human7 comments

Kerry Schafer wrote 3 years ago: Over the last month I’ve watched with a sort of horrified fascination as Queryfail morphed int … more →

Tags: Wordsmiths, Writing Life, writing, Getting Published, Communication, Publication, #agentfail

Old school #queryfail2 comments

Natania wrote 3 years ago: Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part th … more →

Tags: writing, Publication, Samuel Johnson, old school writers

agentfail: thoughts6 comments

Amy Bai wrote 3 years ago: Hi-ho, lazy blogger here! *waves* Yeah, I know, I haven’t posted in a while. It’s actual … more →

Tags: Writers, aagentfail, rekection, queries, literary agents, spring in maine

LJ... Entry Munching Must Stop

nmessina wrote 3 years ago: Goodness. LJ ate my entry AGAIN. For the third time this week. I was about to have a hissy-fit. Inst … more →

Tags: agents, writing, Travel, LiveJournal, Bahamas, Lulu, university woes, Holiday, Victoria Strauss


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