I wouldn’t say one is better than the other, but I think one can be more helpful. A rejection that is personalized with feedback will give you something to consider as you continue to revise and tune your project. Of course, take that feedback with a grain of salt, because it might be personal to […]
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Query Resubmissions
After submitting your query and getting a few rounds of rejections, you may revise your work. It’s probably tempting to resubmit that query to agents who saw it and passed on it. My immediate recommendation: don’t. Some agents are fine with resubmissions. I’ll take a second look at a query and sample I have already […]
The Importance of Friends
Something I love to talk about is how important it is to surround yourself with a community of people when you’re a writer. Writing is a solitary business. It’s something you mostly do on your own. You sit down and you write your book (or article or poem, etc) and it’s just you. Just because […]
Give Yourself a Break
When 90% of your work can be done remotely, it’s really hard to remember that it’s okay to give yourself a day off. This is always true, but is especially relevant when we don’t have our usual distractions. I used to spend weekends with friends and go to baseball games on weeknights, which helped me […]
What Are Sub Rights?
It’s official! I’m the audio rights director for Talcott Notch. This means I handle the audio rights, which are part of sub rights, for our books, both frontlist and backlist. My new role brings up the question: what are sub rights? Sub rights, or subsidiary rights, are all the other formats in which a book […]