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Book Broker – an interview with Leah Pierre
October 09, 2021
It’s the characters that make me care and want to stay for the rest of the story.
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Book Broker – an interview with Lindsay Edgecombe
October 08, 2021
Publishing must become more diverse, both in terms of what we publish, but also in terms of those of us working in the industry.
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Book Broker – an interview with Lauren Keller Galit
August 19, 2021
I love my authors above all else. I find them all to be quirky and engaging and smart and challenging and awesome.
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Book Broker – an interview with Hannah Schofield
July 24, 2021
Authors who write concise, punchy query letters with clearly outlined stakes for their protagonists are more likely to make me flick to their pages the moment I get their email.
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Book Broker – an interview with Rachel Beck
July 23, 2021
I’ll follow a lively, bold, and saucy voice anywhere.
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Book Broker – an interview with Ronald Gerber
July 22, 2021
There’s nothing more satisfying than helping a client realize their dreams and being involved every step of the way.
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Book Broker – an interview with Lauren Scovel
June 21, 2021
If an author can’t summarize the premise/objective for a book, or insists that it gets better after a certain number of pages, I’d suggest they revise a bit more before querying agents.
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Book Broker—an interview with Lisa Hagan
June 03, 2021
Do your homework; there are submission guidelines available on the internet and on the agents' websites. Everything is formulaic and easy to follow.
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Book Broker – an interview with Laura Gross
May 13, 2021
With a fiction submission, it is imperative that I am taken in by the tone, a simple and intelligent self-presentation.
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Book Broker – an interview with Elizabeth K. Kracht
May 12, 2021
Most manuscripts that come across my desk are about four revisions from being ready for representation.
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Book Broker – an interview with Jeff Ourvan
April 29, 2021
I look for page-turning narratives in which the dynamic between the protagonist and the plot pumps like a piston: events cause the protagonist to change; the changed protagonist alters the trajectory of the story.
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Book Broker – an interview with Kate Garrick
April 06, 2021
Everyone’s going to start on page one, so why not make sure page one is as great as possible?
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