“Let’s Get You an Agent”—An Agent’s How-to for Writers
So—Eric Nelson is an agent with the Susan Rabiner Literary Agency. His own blog, “How to Think Like Your Agent,” is full of quick, no-nonsense advice. Here, he lends our readers a special dose of it:...
View ArticleThe Ploughshares Round-Down: Four Kinds of Editors (and Agents) You’ll Meet...
A rule I learned as an editor: when you look at a book’s acknowledgments, the effusiveness of praise for an editor is inversely proportional to the effort he or she put into the book. If a writer goes...
View ArticleThe Ploughshares Round-Down: Do White Male Editors Only Publish White Male...
For most of the nonfiction books I sell, the editors I’m selling to have a lot of objective information on hand to guess at a title’s potential success: the author’s Twitter following, other books on...
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