I’m hosting another Agent Q&A Day over at The Knight Agency blog. Drop by with your burning questions about publishing, submissions, writing, and so on. Just leave them in the comments thread, and I’ll be back to answer late tonight or early tomorrow. Hope to see you over there!
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Agent Q&A
It’s Agent Q&A day over at The Knight Agency blog. Drop by and ask your questions about publishing, writing, submissions, etc. See you there!
Nalini Singh at the Frankfurt Book Fair
The fabulous Nalini Singh visited the Frankfurt Book Fair this year. Here’s a great clip with her, in English with German subtitles.
Agent Q&A
I’m running another Agent Q&A Day over at The Knight Agency blog. Drop by and leave your publishing questions in the comments section of the thread. I’ll answer at least three — more if I have time — either late this evening or early tomorrow. Hope to see you over there!
Conference Bound
Tomorrow I head out for the Romance Writers of America national conference, an annual event that rotates locations. Last year we were in New York City. This year, we’re in Anaheim, CA. This means I do not have to fight with luggage limits or TSA. For once I can just pack my bags, throw them in the trunk of my car, and head on down to meet my fellow agents. I’m less than an hour’s drive from the land of the Mouse, and I’ll admit I’m pretty excited about it. I love traveling, but sometimes, you just want to go, do your thing, and leave.
So what do agents do at conferences? Obviously I have no need to sit in on the various workshops on creating kick-ass heroines or mastering the blog tour. How, precisely, do we fill our days?
One word for you: Meetings. Not just meetings, of course, but sometimes it feels like it. When I attend a conference of this size, I’ll meet with all of my clients who are present, to catch up, chat about business, discuss new story ideas, etc. And then I’ll meet with their editors who are attending the conference. I’ll also meet with other editors, both those I know but have yet to work with, and those I have not previously met.
The rest of the time is filled in with various conference events. I’ll take pitches — in this case for two hours on Friday afternoon. In some cases I present a workshop or two, though that’s not the case at this particular conference. Evenings are filled with client and co-worker dinners, plus cocktail parties thrown by the various publishers that allow you the chance to chat with any editors you didn’t pin down for a one-on-one. The RITA and Golden Heart Awards Ceremony wraps up the conference Saturday night, and I’m thrilled to have clients nominated in several categories.
What do agents do at conferences? We talk. Constantly. But then, we’re talking about books, and what better way to spend a conference?
Wishing you all a wonderful week. If you’re at the conference, be sure to wave.
Happy Book Day!
A very happy book day to Samantha Grace, whose latest Regency romance, LADY AMELIA’S MESS AND A HALF, hits stores today.
JAKE BROKE HER HEART BY LEAVING HER AFTER SHARING A PASSIONATE KISS.
LADY AMELIA BROKE HIS BY MARRYING HIS BEST FRIEND.
When she returns to town a widow—pursued by an infamous rake, Jake’s debauched brother, and just maybe by Jake himself—Lady Amelia will have a mess and a half on her hands.
A sparkling romp through the ton, Lady Amelia’s Mess and a Half delivers a witty Regency romance in which misunderstandings abound, reputations are put on the line, and the only thing more exciting than a scandal is true love.
A big congratulations to Samantha!
Agent Q&A Day
I’m running another Agent Q&A over at The Knight Agency blog. If you have any burning questions about the publishing business, now’s the time to ask. Just head on over and add them to the comments thread. See you there!
Happy Book Day!
Happy book release day to Nalini Singh, whose next installment in the New York Times-bestselling Psy/Changeling series, TANGLE OF NEED, hits stores today. Drop by your favorite bookstore and check it out. Congratulations, Nalini!
Adria, wolf changeling and resilient soldier, has made a break with the past–one as unpredictable in love as it was in war. Now comes a new territory, and a devastating new complication: Riaz, a SnowDancer lieutenant already sworn to a desperate woman who belongs to another.
For Riaz, the primal attraction he feels for Adria is a staggering betrayal. For Adria, his dangerous lone-wolf appeal is beyond sexual. It consumes her. It terrifies her. It threatens to undermine everything she has built of her new life. But fighting their wild compulsion toward one another proves a losing battle.
Their coming together is an inferno…and a melding of two wounded souls who promise each other no commitment, no ties, no bonds. Only pleasure. Too late, they realize that they have more to lose than they ever imagined. Drawn into a cataclysmic Psy war that may alter the fate of the world itself, they must make a decision that might just break them both.
Agent Q&A
I’m holding a Q&A session over at The Knight Agency blog. Drop by there to ask your burning publishing questions, and I’ll swing by later or tomorrow morning to answer a few at random. Full details on the post. Hope to see you there!
Is Your Manuscript Really Finished?
I’m playing over at The Knight Agency blog today, and I’ll be posting there most Wednesdays going forward as part of our ongoing site update. Today I offer up a list of questions to ask yourself before finally submitting your manuscript to agents. Check it out: The Last Pass. Enjoy!