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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

July 24th, 2007

Yes, J.K. Rowling Has A Literary Agent

The wonderful, spectacular success of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has every writer, including me, green with envy and wondering how she did it. Most of us know the story – young, broke, etc. etc. etc.
But I didn’t know much of her success really started with a literary agency. Terry Whalin, an agent, writer, editor […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

July 22nd, 2007

Agent’s Blogs

It should have been obvious. After all, two days ago I did a post about Publisher’s Blogs. But it took going to Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog and chasing some links on his post Pub Rants that I stumbled on PubRants the blog. (I know, the blogosphere does get, if not confusing, a bit recursive […]

By Anne Wayman -- 1 comment

March 22nd, 2007

Avoiding Agency Scams

A member of our forum pointed to a great article on firstwriter.com that outlines how to avoid scams involving agency for writers. Written by J. Paul Dyson
Managing Editor there, Avoiding literary agency scams makes it clear that fees for reading and representation are certain signs of a scam.
Dyson then goes on to explain the pros […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

March 4th, 2007

Q&A: Which Comes First? An Agent or a Publisher?

Hey Anne,
I’m writing a memoir. Some people know that, some don’t. I blog about it from time to time. Anyway, I spent a couple of hours last night with my nose buried in 2007 Writer’s Markets. Read up on literary agents, made note of those who represent memoirs, and studied the […]

By Anne Wayman -- 3 comments

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