Does your writing career need to go on a diet so that it can get stronger again?
It’s no secret that losing weight is one of the most common new year’s resolutions. The resolution is triggered by an ah-ha moment …
Writing career
How to Rescue a Writing Career
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Over the last seven years, all categories of authors have seen a dip in income and in sales figures. That includes those who consistently have significant sales; those who are mid-list; and those who are newbies. …
What It Takes to Succeed in Publishing
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
I recall seeing a television program that included a segment about a Vietnam War POW who, during eight years of imprisonment and torture, mentally created plans for building his family’s dream home. He didn’t just work …
Great Writing Career Expectations
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
If you read the book, What to Expect When You’re Expecting, you probably were motivated to do so to glean as much detail as possible from those who had gone where you had not yet …
Can a Writing Career Be Planned?
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
What does an agent mean when she says career planning is a big part of what she does with her clients? Isn’t that a bit like saying you paddled your boat through the Colorado River white …
A Writing Career Retrospective: Joanna Weaver
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
As we tumble into the fall of 2016 and continue the 20th-anniversary celebration of our agency, please join me in taking an instructive look at the writing career of one of my first clients, Joanna Weaver.…
A Writing Career Retrospective
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
In our continuing celebration of 20 years as a literary agency, I’d like to periodically introduce you to a few of our first clients. I think seeing the course the river of a writing career has …
4 Writing Careers: A Retrospective
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Since 2016 marks the 20th anniversary of our agency, I thought you would enjoy a behind-the-scenes peek at some little-known details. Among my ruminations about the agency’s past are my first clients. Looking back on their …
Are You In This for the Long Haul?
Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
I have a lot of conversations with clients about their writing careers. Often they tell me, “I want to be in this for the long haul.” It’s given me the opportunity to have some great discussions about …
The Kiss of Death: Renaissance Writer
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Books & Such agents and staff are on a writers’ retreat with our clients at the Monterey Plaza Hotel this week and lavishing them with attention. (See photo below showing the view from the hotel.) We’ll be …