How to Know You’re Querying Too Soon

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....

Are You a Writer?

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...

New Agent at FinePrint Looking for PBs

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...

Great Opening Sentences

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of Dystel & Goderich in which the D&G blogowers were asked to submit and choose the best first sentence from an unpublished YA or MG manuscript.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...