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Janet Reid, Literary Agent: AND the horse you rode in on!
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent. Life is short. Play with your dog."- CynthiaMc. Yes, this is filled with whisky. Monday, November 29, 2010. AND the horse you rode in on! In case you can't see the text of the letter accompanying the shredded rejection letter and envelope:. A man of my brilliance and talent should not suffer immediate form rejection letters. So fuck you and good luck in your future endeavors. With your 'judgment' you'll need it.". Labels: I love my job. 11/29/10, 3:45 PM. 11/29/10, 3:47 PM.
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent: Query Letter checklist
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent. Life is short. Play with your dog."- CynthiaMc. Yes, this is filled with whisky. Friday, July 23, 2004. Does your query have:. 1 Dear Janet (or equivalent. NOT: Dear Agent, To Whom it may concern. 2 The title of your work. 3 The kind of work: fiction, non-fiction, memoir. 4 The word count. Under 50,000 is too few, over 200,000 is too many). 5 Two paragraphs showing me what the book is about and enticing me to read more. 7 Your contact information: email, phone number. Dear, de...
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent: Amy's agent flash fiction contest
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent. Life is short. Play with your dog."- CynthiaMc. Yes, this is filled with whisky. Friday, July 31, 2015. Amy's agent flash fiction contest. This week we're celebrating our own Amy-in-Paradise securing representation for her novel. Those of us who've seen her flash fiction contest entries aren't surprised in the least to hear this great news! Since her book hasn't sold yet [what a slacker agent! No book deal in 7 days! The prize will be a book of the winner's choosing. Contest o...
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent: So, how do you get paid for your time?
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent. Life is short. Play with your dog."- CynthiaMc. Yes, this is filled with whisky. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. So, how do you get paid for your time? How do you get paid for your time? And you can't buy it either. I get paid for results. I sell your book, I get 15% of the proceeds. All of the work you see here on the blog, or that you get at a conference is unpaid. Why would anyone do that you ask? Well, I ask myself that question sometimes too. 7/28/15, 7:16 AM. This is a great com...
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent: Query Question: more on waiting time
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent. Life is short. Play with your dog."- CynthiaMc. Yes, this is filled with whisky. Thursday, August 06, 2015. Query Question: more on waiting time. I am a contemporary romance writer and have been submitting my third novel to agents. I'm delighted to say that I have had 6 Full requests and 2 Partials (the most positive responses I have ever had) since 25 May but have not heard a thing back from any of these agents so far. I think everyone is running long right now except those e...
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent: Week in Review August 9
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent. Life is short. Play with your dog."- CynthiaMc. Yes, this is filled with whisky. Sunday, August 09, 2015. Week in Review August 9. It's nice to be back on track after a couple weeks of being away and feeling very untethered by too much to do. Last week's review wasn't really more than a hodge podge of quick notes from the Writers Digest conference but as usual, the best part of any blog post is found in the comments. I just loved this news from bjmuntain:. Packing for Bismarck...
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent: Rant: Pitch sessions are the spawn of Satan
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent. Life is short. Play with your dog."- CynthiaMc. Yes, this is filled with whisky. Wednesday, January 15, 2014. Rant: Pitch sessions are the spawn of Satan. Pitch sessions are the spawn of Satan. They're an evil born of writing conferences and writers' understandable eagerness to get in front of as many agents as possible. If querying is a numbers game (it can seem that way) then meeting as many agents as possible seems like a good idea. AND IT'S ALL AVOIDABLE! And here's where ...
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent: Query question: will an agent be willing to work with me on developmental things?
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent. Life is short. Play with your dog."- CynthiaMc. Yes, this is filled with whisky. Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Query question: will an agent be willing to work with me on developmental things? My question is, given my writing experience (I am not bragging. I realize there are many more authors with more experience) would an agent (in general) be willing to work with me with a piece of fiction I'm working on but is not finished? Here's why: a query letter (regardless of publication ...
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent: week in review May 17, 2015
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent. Life is short. Play with your dog."- CynthiaMc. Yes, this is filled with whisky. Sunday, May 17, 2015. Week in review May 17, 2015. Last week's Week in Review. Was also the Sunday when Mother's Day sweeps the land. I think Carolynnwith2Ns had the perfect summation:. I loved the visual here from Jennifer R. Donohue:. I've now performed the magic trick where my 3 dimensional Doberman is currently a Flat Dog on the Couch. Time for everyone to Get Well! I've got letters on station...
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent: Week in Review delayed; also Monday's post
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Janet Reid, Literary Agent. Life is short. Play with your dog."- CynthiaMc. Yes, this is filled with whisky. Sunday, July 26, 2015. Week in Review delayed; also Monday's post. I'm back in NYC but oh man, the traveling and conference have really caught up with me. I've got a bunch of work I need to attend to before getting back to blog posts,. So I'll probably not have a new post ready till Tuesday. I will say that the highlight of the conference for me was getting to meet several. The WIR is delayed.