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We suspect we wouldn’t know a big commercial book if it hit us in the head, but apparently some authors write them, recognize them, and market them. If you have this particular skill set, Nicholas Ellison is looking for you. Also, it helps if you’re already established, but that’s not a requirement. Ellison, Jennifer Cayea, […]

Martin Literary Management offers a twist on the Hollywood style: rather than pushing fiction (even the truest of true stories is fictionalized for your viewing pleasure), they focus exclusively on non-fiction. Non-fiction with a People magazine sensibility. Yes, non-fiction that appeals to a wide range of readers and tastes. Sharlene Martin likes works that can […]

Have we dwelled on agents and what they do recently? We confess, we have a rather romantic view of literary agents. We see them as the ones who feed and nurture their talented clients. Lots of chicken soup, lots of creative banter. Hmm, it is quite possible that we are confusing literary agents with movies […]

It’s hard to work up emotion when you think the body’s been buried forever, but we’ll give it our best shot. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Well, so much for crying on cue. As it turns out, there was one agency out there still collecting a piddly 10% commission on sales, but no more. Who knew? The […]

We admit it: we have a hard time separating our fiction novels from our non-fiction novels. Where is the line? Isn’t that what makes creative non-fiction so compelling? Is it any wonder we’re of a certain age and still trying to figure out where we fit into the world? We like the B.J. Robbins Literary […]

If we were the literary non-fiction type (and we suspect we aren’t), we’d definitely add Elizabeth Wales to our potential agent list. Wales Literary is definitely a small agency with a decidedly political bent — but without a geographical bias. The agency is based in Seattle, good because: The distance from New York, Wales says, […]

Paul Bresnick struck out on his own not too long ago after various stops at the editorial desk, dot-com world, music writing, and agenting with others. The agenting was especially alluring because it allowed him to fulfill his first desire: editing. “By the end of my career as a trade editor, I felt that I […]

Maria Massie has left Inkwell Management and joined Lippincott Massie McQuilkin (way to get the name on the letterhead!). Now for the bad news, Lippincott has a domain, but no website. Since there’s a name change involved (addition of Massie), it’s possible they will need to start from scratch on the website thing (luckily, this […]

Donna Bagdasarian has joined the Maria Carvainis Agency. While we’d love to point you the Carvainis website, sigh, it appears to exist in name only. However, in what we see as positive first steps, they do have a domain name and Bagdasarian does have a listing at Publisher’s Marketplace. Contact info is: Maria Carvainis Agency, […]

Soon, a heaping lot of people will have completed 50,000 words of a novel (we plan to be one of the elite, but realize we will be nowhere near finished). While we’d normally linger on the joys of revising, today we’re going to pretend we’ve done so and move on to what one does with […]