Blogs: Agents

Guest Post: Peadar On Getting an Agent, Part 2

May 9, 2011

The Graft of Getting An Agent by Peadar Ó Guilín So, last time out we saw some of the joyful things that can happen to you when an agent fights your corner. No doubt you’re champing at the bit to go right out there and get one for yourself. But what, you wonder, is the [...]

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Guest Post: Peadar Ó Guilín on Agents

May 2, 2011

While this blog usually slants toward the small press perspective, I thought it might be good to step into the larger world and offer the perspective of author who works with a major publishing house. Handling of submissions is one of those areas where the small press and major publishing worlds are vastly different. The [...]

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Your Five Minutes Start… Now!

February 15, 2010

Thanks to the wonderful Laurie McLean and the rest of the Larsen-Pomada Literary Agency, I had the fortune to spend my weekend at the San Francisco Writers Conference as an independent editor. For two days, my job was to advise writers in one-on-one sessions. The catch? The sessions were only five minutes long. Sign-up sheets [...]

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Urban Fantasy, Podcasting, and Rhetorical Questions

December 17, 2009

…and more! Kimi Alexandre of the urban fantasy Tale Chasing podcast put up a great interview with Laurie McLean, an agent with Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents. Kimi asks some great questions, and Laurie shares a wealth of knowledge on a range of topics, including the definitions of urban fantasy and its sub-genres, how the bestseller lists [...]

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