by Martina Boone | Apr 30, 2010 | Imported from AYAP
A couple of days ago, I blogged about Nathan Bransford’s Agent for a Day experiment. On Wednesday, he posted the first thirty pages of the five random queries used in the experiment on Wednesday, and then yesterday he posted his takeaway from the experiment.... by Martina Boone | Apr 29, 2010 | Imported from AYAP
I’ve been thinking a lot about Rachel Gardner’s blog post yesterday. She refers to writing as “a lifestyle,” and it’s hard to achieve this with so many other daily demands around us. While I agree with her that a writer pursuing publication can’t be flippant... by Martina Boone | Apr 28, 2010 | Imported from AYAP
Marissa Walsh, the new KidLit specialist at FinePrint is looking for picture books and mainstream YA & MG manuscripts. Check out the information and guidelines at: http://fineprintlit.blogspot.com/2010/04/fineprint-literary-management-welcomes.html Happy... by Martina Boone | Apr 28, 2010 | Imported from AYAP
Another great contest last week was the one posted by Jim McCarthy of Dystel & Goderich in which the D&G blogowers were asked to submit and choose the best first sentence from an unpublished YA or MG manuscript. Check out the top nine and some fascinating... by Martina Boone | Apr 28, 2010 | Imported from AYAP
The ever intrepid Nathan Bransford has come up with an intriguing experiment: shuffle a slushpile in an agent’s shoes. He has randomly chosen five queries from the 150+ submitted by willing participants, and we, his minions, were instructed to pick one that...
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