So even though I’d seen similar concepts previously—hey, I’ve been agenting for two decades—those concepts are totally new for agents and editors who have arrived on the scene in the last couple years. Back in the early 2000s when I got my start, the industry was in the throes ...
Want to try a traditional publisher, but don’t know how to pitch to agents? We’ve got just the person to help you out. PathBinder Publishing founder and former owner, Heather Hummel, has penned dozens of books as a ghostwriter. With over a decade of ghostwriting experience, she is ...
For more than twenty years she searched the globe tracking down the model houses and poles; scoured archives to sort out the work of early anthropologists, photographers, missionaries, government agents, and museums; and worked with our people to sort these findings out further, along with working...
frankly, there are plenty of agents out there who just don’t care.) If an agent already knows that the editor to whom she planned to take a manuscript will take offense at the newfangled disregard of standards that have been in place for about 150 years, the argument but ...
Anna Mary Weston was a second-generation German American railroad car cleaner in Portland who was the first woman in Oregon to be tried under the Sedition Act of May 1918 for speaking against the war effort. Federal agents questioned Weston and her co-workers at her workplace at North Bank ...
After everyone on the scene is interviewed, lab results show a toxic mix of substances in the victim’s body―and for an extra touch of viciousness, the needle was teeming with infectious agents. Dallas searches for a pattern: Had any boys been harassing Jenna? Was she engaging in risky ...
If you go into the rights area where the agents sit, it is absolutely ridiculous. And it is kind of meeting after meeting after meeting and it is very loud, very noisy. And there is something that, about seeing people in the flesh that you can't really replicate. James Blatch: Yeah...
—Joy Passanante, older sister ofJean Passanante(classmate and lifelong friend of my older brother; also, an award-winning daytime dramas writer), for her first book’s being selected, and —William Least Heat Moon, author of a favorite nonfiction book of mine, Blue Highways, for his firs...
circumstances. Like her fictional character Claudia Rose in the award-winning Forensic Handwriting series, Sheila is a real-life forensic handwriting expert who testifies in court cases. She also writes the Beyond the Veil paranormal suspense series and nonfiction books about handwriting and personality...
Vanity publishing always had a bad name. The concept was that some sucker would pay some huckster to print several thousand copies of their “terrifically important” manuscript that somehow had been cruelly overlooked by 300 New York agents and publishers, and turn that into the bestseller it ...