What Do Agents Look For? Great Writers, Great Professionals
Nonfiction writers looking for traditional book publishing contracts—wanting to sell their manuscripts to small, medium or large traditional publishing houses, need to find themselves literary...
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Let’s backtrack for a day to the all-important topic of pitches and query letters. I just received an expert blog post from agent Katharine Sands, editor of Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a...
View Article7 Nonfiction Book Marketing Traps to Avoid
The year I won the San Francisco Writer’s Conference pitch conference, I had just gained some really valuable information in a morning session. (I mentioned this in an earlier WNFiN post.) The session...
View ArticleWhen Should You Publish Your Book?
Some aspiring indie authors wonder if they should publish in a particular month or season. Maybe releasing a book in the fall when school starts is a good time? Maybe in the spring before the summer...
View Article10 Ways to Excite Agents and Editors About Your Book
Every year during WNFIN, I ask a few literary agents to offer trips about how to write book proposals and query letters. (You can read some here, here, here, and here, or search the site for more.)...
View ArticleThe Periodic Elements of the Nonfiction Book Proposal
Literary agent Mark Gottlieb sees a lot of book proposals every week. That’s a lot of nonfiction book ideas passing across his desk at Trident Media Group every year. In this guest post, he provides...
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