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(This article, originally published in the Ninc newsletter, is a report on one panel I attended at the 2012 Novelists Inc. Conference in White Plains N.Y. This article was also referenced by literary agent Jim McCarthy of Dystel & Goderich in his blog post When Agents Attack.) Industry Guests: Robert Gottleib (Trident Media Group), Nita … [Read more…]
What can I say? I was busy this month, so the links are lean. It’s probably the only lean thing you’ll see between now and the first of the year ::wink:: * Talk about your Monster Book Publisher. * And a perspective on the merger. * Another “50 Shades” laugh about copyright violations. Seriously? * … [Read more…]
Thanks to the threat of Sandy, I came back from the Novelists Inc. Conference in New York two days earlier than originally planned. Thankfully, this still gave me the chance to see many friends and make a number of new ones. I also was able to attend the first two days of panels and roundtables. … [Read more…]
Okay, maybe they aren’t so colorful, but hey, it’s autumn here in North America, so the links should be colorful, too, right? * I’m pretty I could read and review more than 20 books a year. Am I missing something? * I’ve been around since before there was an Internet. The evolution of it continues … [Read more…]
If you’d asked me a year ago, I would have predicted that the dystopian “bubble” in YA fiction would have burst by now–but I would have been wrong. It looks like there’s still a strong market for it, though my guess is that editors and agents would say that, if you’re writing a dystopian young … [Read more…]