What Literary Agents Want to See When You’re Not Famous, Part I
When you’re trying to get published, the first thing literary agents tell you is that you have to have a platform. A platform is an audience of people who know who you are. Typically it’s achieved...
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Sweet and Sour Literary Agents (and Rumi)
This is a tale of two pairs of literary agents. Each pair includes a sweet one and a sour one. Sounds like a fairy tale? It kind of is– with both a happy ending and a moral. The first tale involves...
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Get in Chicken Soup for the Soul
If you want a literary agent, it can't hurt to get a story in Chicken Soup for the Soul. If you want a literary agent, it helps to have some writing credits. One good writing credit to put on your...
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7 TV Shows Authors are Guaranteed to Get On
What do Elvira, The Food Network’s Bobby Flay, and comedian Tom Green all have in common? They all started out on public access television. PBS affiliate KTCA even picked up a program called Mental...
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What Adam Sandler and Sandra Bullock Can Do For Your Book
If you want a literary agent, mine the humor in your life story, like Carrie Fisher does in "Wishful Drinking." In my interviews with publishing professionals, one thing has come across loud and clear:...
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From Tiny Blog to Book Deal to Oprah
Here’s a true story to help you understand how to get noticed by hundreds of thousands of people and eventually have the media begging for interviews with you. If you want to be in this position...
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