LITERARY AGENTS: DO POETS REALLY NEED THEM?Interviews several poetry editors on whether poets need literary agents. Deborah Garrison of Knopf; Jeffrey Shotts of Graywolf Press; Rebecca Wolff of "Fence" magazine.EBSCO_AspPoets & Writers
Patrick’s business and technical writing experience includes documentation of one of the first travel agency computer systems to interface with major airline reservation networks. He has also documented computer systems that managed and reported on: commodity flow and delivery for the largest agricultural...
How to Impress a Literary Agent.How to Impress a Literary Agent.The article offers advice from various literary agents on how writers can stand out among fellow writers and impress agents. They include one from Emily Forland on the importance for query letters to include the value of the work...
Betsy Amster Literary Enterprises is a full-service literary agency located in Los Angeles, California. We handle publishing rights and all ancillary rights (such as film, TV, audio, electronic, and foreign) for the authors we represent. We work with bot
(Association of Authors’ Representatives, now known as the Association of American Literary Agents) and as chair of its Ethics Committee. Many of the books she represents have been on the NY Times bestseller list and have been NY Times Notable Books of the Year, and several have been turned...
The project took two years to complete and required extensive correspondence with poets, editors, and literary agents. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These workshops have included seminar leaders including producers, general managers, the...
But having a few such wins to boast about does you no harm when approaching editors or agents, so if you have dreams of a writing career, these could be the place to begin. Below is a list of the most interesting competitions. Bear in mind that contests with smaller prizes attract ...
Agents, for their part, seemed suspicious of the notion. “When I’m looking for better royalties out there, it often has do with e[-books],” said Jennifer Weltz, of the Jean V. Naggar Agency. “That’s where the issue is.” Adding that she doesn’t feel a flat royalty rate woul...
“Chinese fortune cookies” in their bakeries in California until Executive Order 9066 forced them to sell their business in a hurry to their Chinese neighbors when the United States let fear rule its policy making and rounded up those newly minted “foreign agents” or “enemy combatants” to...
” While they can act as a stepping stone for writers who wish to go on to have a career in publishing, you shouldn’t view literary magazines as simply a means to an end — if only because doing so will very likely reduce your chances of ever actually being featured in one of them...