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Chuck Sambuchino’s Guide to Literary Agents Blog

Chuck Sambuchino is an editor and published book author who runs the Guide to Literary Agents Blog, one of the biggest blogs in publishing. His site has posts on agents, query letters, submissions, publishing, platform, marketing and more.

Agent Advice: Chris Park of Foundry Literary + Media

July 8, 2010 | Chuck Sambuchino | Comments: 2
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This installment features Chris Park of Foundry Literary + Media. Prior to joining Foundry, Chris worked as an editor for several New York publishing houses (Hachette Book Group, Random House) and helped launch an independent publishing company. She has a degree in English from Harvard University and lives in a Chicago suburb with her family.

She is seeking: memoirs, narrative nonfiction, Christian nonfiction and character-driven fiction, and she enjoys working with authors to develop books that are appealing and accessible to a broad audience. Read more

Let Me Critique Your Synopsis: Webinar This Thursday, July 8

July 8, 2010 | Chuck Sambuchino | Comments: 0
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Those pesky synopses for novels and memoirs are very tricky to do. Questions abound. How long should they be? Which characters should you mention? Should you have plenty of detail or just sparse mentions? If these questions are crossing your mind, you’ve come to the right place. Read more

Footnotes: 4 Articles on Publishing Myths

July 7, 2010 | Chuck Sambuchino | Comments: 0

“Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it’s addressed to someone else.”~ Ivern Ball Footnotes is a recurring series on the GLA blog where I pick … Read more

Molto Bene: Gnomes Gets Offer For Italian-Language Rights

July 7, 2010 | Chuck Sambuchino | Comments: 6

Got some exciting news last week. Italy’s coolest publishing house, whose name I cannot even remember now, made an offer to buy Italian-language rights of How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack. … Read more

Agent Miriam Kriss On: Is There Still Room in Urban Fantasy?

July 7, 2010 | Chuck Sambuchino | Comments: 6
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Urban fantasy has become a catchall phrase for contemporary-set fantasy and magical realism. It draws on many traditions of fantasy, horror, hardboiled crime fiction and even romance, blending them together in differing degrees to give us new stories with old tropes. It first really broke out with Laurel K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake series in the 90s and has been growing by leaps and bounds ever since, cross-pollinating additional genres as it goes, including of course young adult. By this point, it’s a mature subgenre and very crowded. So can a new author still hope to break out? Of course! Here are a few things to keep in mind as you go about breaking out. Read more

How I Got My Agent: Sandy James

July 6, 2010 | Chuck Sambuchino | Comments: 3
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“How I Got My Agent” is a recurring feature on the GLA blog. Some tales are of long roads and many setbacks, while others are of good luck and quick signings. If you have a literary agent and would be interested in writing a short guest column for this GLA blog, e-mail me at literaryagent@fwmedia.com and we’ll talk specifics.

Sandy James’ first book, Turning Thirty-Twelve was released in 2009. She has also written four books in her “Damaged Heroes” series for BookStrand. Read more

Come Meet Me in Akron, OH on July 17. It’s the Northern Ohio SCBWI Summer Session.

July 2, 2010 | Chuck Sambuchino | Comments: 0
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OK, so it’s not technically a conference, per se, but I will be speaking at a regional meeting of the Northern Ohio Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. Very cool stuff. Read more

7 Things I’ve Learned So Far, by Jan Underwood

July 1, 2010 | Chuck Sambuchino | Comments: 7

This is a recurring column I’m calling “7 Things I’ve Learned So Far,” where writers at any stage of their career can talk about seven things they’ve learned along their writing journey that they wish they knew at the beginning. This installment is from writer Jan Underwood.

Jan Underwood teaches and writes in Portland, Ore. Her novel, Day Shift Werewolf, winner of the 2005 International Three Day Novel Contest, was published by 3DayBooks in 2006. Read more

New Agent Alert: Anita Bartholomew of Salkind Literary

June 30, 2010 | Chuck Sambuchino | Comments: 3

Reminder: Newer agents are golden opportunities for new writers because they’re likely building their client list; however, always make sure your work is as perfect as it can be before submitting, and only query agencies that are a great fit for your work. Otherwise, you’re just wasting time and postage.

She is seeking: mystery/suspense, historical, courtroom/legal thrillers, detective, paranormal, YA and middle-grade. (No picture books.) She also enjoys narrative nonfiction in the categories of memoir, history, science (expert-authored), biography, inspirational/dramatic true story, current affairs, culture, and politics/policy. Read more

6 Tips on How to Build a Platform and Sell Books

June 29, 2010 | Chuck Sambuchino | Comments: 2

For nonfiction writers, the most significant development of the past decade has been the insistence by the publishers that authors have national platforms. For fiction writers, authors’ platforms matter less. However, it … Read more

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