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 […]
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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 […]
My Submission Process
So, you’re looking for an agent. You know that an agent helps you to get your book in the hands of editors, but what does that process look like? Different agents handle submissions differently, but this is my process. After I sign a client, we usually do at least one round of revisions on the […]