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The Agents of Books & Such Literary Management Muse About Books, Publishing, and Life

The Gift of Mentoring

July 28, 2025 //  by Wendy Lawton//  2 Comments

At a recent staff meeting agents got on the topic of the gift of mentoring.When we each shared the part of the job we loved most it all boiled down to relationship– our opportunity to mentor our clients and be …

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Five Questions I Ask After Reading a Query

July 20, 2025 //  by Jen Babakhan//  2 Comments

Recently I held a “Pitch Me Day” on Threads, a day I created to give writers a chance to pitch their project in a low pressure way. If I “like” the pitch, they get to skip the query and send …

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Proposal Challenge: The Competition Section

July 13, 2025 //  by Janet Grant//  5 Comments

Recently I was interviewed on one of my client’s podcasts, PastorWriter, with Chase Replogle.  We talked about the challenge of writing a winning proposal. Chase and I, along with Barb Roose, are currently working on Chase’s proposal so during the …

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Five Practices for Becoming a Better Writer

July 6, 2025 //  by Debbie Alsdorf//  3 Comments

Whether you’ve just started putting pen to paper or you’ve been writing for years, one truth remains constant: there’s always room to grow. Becoming a better writer isn’t about waiting for inspiration to strike—it’s about showing up consistently, pushing your …

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Building a Writing Community

June 29, 2025 //  by Rachel Kent//  6 Comments

Writing can be lonely. You sit in front of your computer, day after day, typing away–agonizing over the words that will come together to form the story that you’ve dreamed up. It takes many solitary hours to craft and edit …

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Still Unpublished? Let’s Do Something About That!

June 22, 2025 //  by Barb Roose//  21 Comments

What do popcorn kernels, song lyrics, and gum have in common? They get stuck, especially in places where we don’t want them to stick.

If you’re an unpublished, aspiring writer, “stuck” might be the word you use to describe the …

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The Dreaded No

June 15, 2025 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  14 Comments

If an author were to compile a vocabulary list for writers in the making, or writers stuck in the middle, they might put the dreaded NO at the top of the list. To many, it feels as if they hear …

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Books & Such Literary Management— Big News!

June 8, 2025 //  by Wendy Lawton//  4 Comments

Books & Such Literary Management has big news, but first a little background.  .  .

Books & Such Literary Management is often asked if all literary agencies are basically alike? Our answer? Absolutely not. Let me explain.

Some agencies are

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A Writer’s Summer

June 1, 2025 //  by Jen Babakhan//  3 Comments

As we roll into summer, I thought it might be nice to take a look at the many ways a writer can benefit from both the chaos and calm that the season has to offer. Being born and raised in …

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Remembering Loved Ones

May 25, 2025 //  by Janet Grant//  12 Comments

As I considered what to write about on this Memorial weekend, my memory floated back to the year my brother and I muddled our way through May gift-giving. That May was the first year we were old enough to consider …

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