As a literary agent in major trade publishing at the Trident Media Group literary agency, I often have to explain many of these key book publishing terms and phrases to new clients. This serves as a light glossary of key terms for new authors unfamiliar with the phrases and abbreviations casually tossed around in the […]
If you want to know how to become a literary agent, you have a great goal. Agents are the link between the writer and the publisher, and largely responsible for making a book go from the writer’s hands into the hands of the public. Without literary agents, traditionally published authors would have an extremely difficult […]
If you want to become an author, you’re going to need to find a literary agent. Agents can help you not only get your book ready to be published, but they can help you get your foot in the door to potential publishers. Finding a publishing company on your own versus trying to find one […]
Kate Bland shot for the Financial Times by Alastair Levy Kate Bland has described Spiracle as a “bookshop” so many times that people sometimes get confused and think she’s talking about a real place. In fact, the company operates from a basement office in north London and its product is digital: an audiobook subscription platform […]
If you want to become an author, you’re going to need to find a literary agent. Agents can help you not only get your book ready to be published, but they can help you get your foot in the door to potential publishers. Finding a publishing company on your own versus trying to find one […]
You tried cracking the code to get a literary agent’s attention, be it on an inquiry or a face-to-face meeting, right? You’ve spent a long time searching for the secret of getting an agent to sit up and say, “Wow!” Now that I’m in a good mood, I risk marginalizing my colleagues by breaking the […]