Peadar Ó Guilín

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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Gatekeeping

August 9, 2010

In this new world model of publishing, the traditional gatekeepers — editors, agents, publishers — are finding themselves in a slightly different position. Self-publishing is on the rise, and anyone dissatisfied with “the system” can choose to detour around the gates and the gatekeepers entirely. But that does not encourage the gatekeepers to abandon their [...]

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The Inferior

May 27, 2010

I met Peadar Ó Guilín at Worldcon last summer in Montreal. We were introduced in the participants’ green room by a mutual colleague, and when I asked Peadar what his novel was about, he gave me a sheepish grin and his lovely Irish accent twisted in that universal tone of voice that means this is [...]

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