A proud Tejana from San Antonio, Stefanie is based in southern California. She is a member of the Association of American Literary Agents and a board member ofLatinx in Publishing.She was featured inPublishers Weekly’s “Literary Agents Assess the Middle Grade Landscape” andHorn Book‘s “A...
Minette, is a beautiful lady, both inside and on the outside. She is also a most accomplished individual, whose professional expertise in child psychology, and her involvement in so many other diverse industries and projects she has, and still is involved with. Her contributions within the Thea...
The guests, more than 400 of L.A.’s literati: authors, editors, publishers, book reviewers, literary agents, the local independent presses. Anna March whisked in and out, a flash of pink hair in a polka-dot dress. The 2015 party at the Ace’s mezzanine bar, serving free drinks, ...
A previously-unpublished writer should only query literary agents after the manuscript is: Complete Revised Polished Read by independent and qualified readers. For non-fiction, query when you have a fully-developed proposal. Manuscripts should be submitted in standard format.* ...
HOME(current) ABOUT SANDRA(current) AGENTS(current) BOOKS AUTHORS(current) CONFERENCES(current) RIGHTS HOW TO SUBMIT(current)Wendy Spinale During college I was living in southern California working for Disneyland as a Cast Member in the Entertainment Department. I met my husband there who was ...
If you are a freelancer who would like to submit an article for paid publication in our ezine, please visit our Contact Page and scroll down to the “Submissions” subheading. Brenda Hill Brenda Hill writes novels, short stories, and features for her Southern California newspaper. Her first ...
ABOUT SANDRA(current) AGENTS(current) BOOKS AUTHORS(current) CONFERENCES(current) RIGHTS HOW TO SUBMIT(current)Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever Roger Gould Wiley/Turner, 2007 Agent: Sandra Dijkstra Studies show that the reason why many people gain weight—and keep it on...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Doris Kearns Goodwin and, counter-intuitively, Robert McNamara. “This is a business of self-fulfilling prophecies,” Janklow declared. “One of the reasons to drive for big advances is not to make authors and agents rich. It’s to make the publisher aware of what he...
The reason different rates were created for different formats, as a number of agents explained, was to address the different costs publishers took on in creating each format. The royalty on hardcover books levels out at 15%, the agents said, because this figure was intended to deliver a 50-...