DEALBREAKERS: 5 Reasons Your Book Won’t Sell

DEALBREAKERS: 5 Reasons Your Book Won’t Sell

DEALBREAKERS: 5 Reasons Your Book Won’t SellFrom Career Authors — write. sell. repeat. 1. Your Protagonist Is not Smart and/or Brave and/or Relatable Is not unique in some way Doesn’t drive the action from beginning to end(Not all heroes wear capes.) 2....
You’ve Got the Chops, Now Write a Break-Out Book

You’ve Got the Chops, Now Write a Break-Out Book

As an agent and author, I spend a lot of time at conferences meeting writers looking to break into traditional publishing.  And so many of these writers are THIS close to getting published. Meaning that they’ve been working hard on their craft, putting in the ten...
How Much Money Do Authors Really Make: One Agent’s Rant

How Much Money Do Authors Really Make: One Agent’s Rant

Are you rich? Are you famous? How much do authors make, really? It’s complicated. Which of course is not what people who are always asking me this want to hear. But as James Michener once said, you can make a killing in this business, but you can’t make a living. Or...

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