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Interview with an agent

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Interview with an agent

Post by EC2 » Fri March 26th, 2010, 3:49 pm

I thought some of you might be interested by this in depth interview The Literary Project did with my agent Carole Blake.
http://www.theliteraryproject.blogspot.com/
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Post by michellemoran » Fri March 26th, 2010, 11:14 pm

Thanks for posting, EC. Your agent sounds lovely! Imagine being cornered at parties though when you're just there to enjoy yourself? What a hassle!
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Post by cw gortner » Sat March 27th, 2010, 2:25 am

Very interesting. She sounds lovely. She used to represent a friend of mine and I queried her years and years ago. She sent back one of the nicest rejections I ever got.
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Post by Miss Moppet » Sat March 27th, 2010, 3:59 am

Very interesting interview. I enjoyed Carole's book, From Pitch to Publication. Very practical and down to earth, and it also showed me how incredibly complicated publishing deals can be. You must need a very detail-oriented mind to be an agent!

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Post by EC2 » Sat March 27th, 2010, 11:12 am

She is very lovely indeed, but she does have a reputation in the business for being scary when she's on the warpath. Basically She doesn't suffer fools gladly and hates dishonesty. Are you following her on Twitter Miss Moppet? She's talkative fun on all sorts of subjects, but the publishing ones are most enlightening. I do remember someone on Twitter posting to her 'So, you wanna publish my novel?' Boy, did he get a scorching!
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Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard n’I chasront

'The Brave and the valiant
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Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal

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Post by Margaret » Sat March 27th, 2010, 4:20 pm

Anyone who sends a Twitter post saying "Do you wanna publish my novel?' deserves a scorching!!! Now that I am doing a lot of reviewing, I can sympathize with agents, their slush stacks, and the people who get downright nasty if you don't think their novel was God's gift to mankind. Fortunately, the latter are very much the exception rather than the rule, but they can ruin your whole day if you let them.
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Post by Chatterbox » Tue March 30th, 2010, 5:23 pm

I love people who don't suffer fools gladly. That tends to mean that they are smart and very independent.

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