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pitching

How to: Finding out what editors want

2009-06-09
By: Jennifer Lawler
On: June 9, 2009
In: The Publishing Business

In a recent post on pitching editors, a reader asked, “How do you ask editors what they want?”  Anyone who’s been pitching for more than ten minutes knows this question is more complicated than it looks because you can’t just send a random editor a letter saying, “Tell me whatContinue Reading

How to: Solve an editor’s problem

2009-05-28
By: Jennifer Lawler
On: May 28, 2009
In: The Publishing Business

Yesterday I was talking about how “not finding your thing” can make it harder to achieve success as a writer.  Today I’m going to talk a bit about another problem (related to the first) that some writers have that holds them back:   They focus on what they want, notContinue Reading

Behind the Scenes: Pitching Agents

2009-04-28
By: Jennifer Lawler
On: April 28, 2009
In: The Publishing Business

A week or two ago, agent Nathan Bransford did a “Be an Agent for a Day” contest where he challenged his blog readers to read 50 queries (more or less what an agent might see in his/her inbox on any given day), and pick 5 they felt had potential andContinue Reading

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