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These Writers Found Agents at the Writer's Digest Conference. You Can, Too!

At the Writer's Digest Conference, more than 60 literary agents attend every year to find writers of fantasy, novels, romance, cookbooks, memoir, western & more

I'll cut right to the chase. The Writer's Digest Conference is this coming weekend—Jan. 20–22, 2012, in Manhattan. We've got more than 60 literary agents lined up to take pitches at our huge Agent Pitch Slam. If you're on the fence about attending our event (either for the full three days or the one-day option), let me give you four great reasons to attend: testimonials from writers who got agents and book deals through our event. You can get a sense of our recent successes by looking at the images below of the writers and their books. Want to read all four testimonials? They're all online on the Writer's Digest Conference website.

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What the Death Card Revealed About My Writing Career, by Megan Tady

What the Death Card Revealed About My Writing Career

Award-winning author Megan Tady shares how receiving the death card in relation to her future as an author created new opportunities, including six new habits to protect her mental health.

T.J. English: Making Bad Choices Makes for Great Drama

T.J. English: Making Bad Choices Makes for Great Drama

In this interview, author T.J. English discusses how he needed to know more about the subject before agreeing to write his new true-crime book, The Last Kilo.

Holiday Fight Scene Helper (FightWriteâ„¢)

Holiday Fight Scene Helper (FightWriteâ„¢)

This month, trained fighter and author Carla Hoch gives the gift of helping you with your fight scenes with this list of fight-related questions to get your creative wheels turning.

One Piece of Advice From 7 Horror Authors in 2024

One Piece of Advice From 7 Horror Authors in 2024

Collected here is one piece of advice for writers from seven different horror authors featured in our author spotlight series in 2024, including C. J. Cooke, Stuart Neville, Del Sandeen, Vincent Ralph, and more.

How to Make a Crazy Story Idea Land for Readers: Bringing Believability to Your Premise, by Daniel Aleman

How to Make a Crazy Story Idea Land for Readers: Bringing Believability to Your Premise

Award-winning author Daniel Aleman shares four tips on how to make a crazy story idea land for readers by bringing believability to your wild premise.

Why I Write: From Sartre to Recovery and Back Again, by Henriette Ivanans

Why I Write: From Sartre to Recovery and Back Again

Author Henriette Ivanans gets existential, practical, and inspirational while sharing why she writes, why she really writes.

5 Tips for Exploring Mental Health in Your Fiction, by Lisa Williamson Rosenberg

5 Tips for Exploring Mental Health in Your Fiction

Author Lisa Williamson Rosenberg shares her top five tips for exploring mental health in your fiction and how that connects to emotion.

Chelsea Iversen: Follow Your Instincts

Chelsea Iversen: Follow Your Instincts

In this interview, author Chelsea Iversen discusses the question she asks herself when writing a character-driven story, and her new historical fantasy novel, The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt.

Your Story #134

Your Story #134

Write a short story of 650 words or fewer based on the photo prompt. You can be poignant, funny, witty, etc.; it is, after all, your story.