Saturday, April 22, 2017

Summer Camp for Writers: An Agent’s Guide to Conferences

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It’s that time again. Spring in New England—the tulips are blooming, the trees are budding, and the conference invitations are piling u...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Top Ten Reasons You Can--and Can't--Get an Agent

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Top Ten Reasons You Can’t Get an Agent 1.      You are approaching the wrong agents. 2.      Your marketing strategy is all sh...
Monday, January 2, 2017

A Writer's Tools: The Cork Board

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I love index cards. They're the key to my plotting, the tools I use to conceive, arrange, and rearrange scenes. I describe how I d...
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Sunday, January 1, 2017

Here's to a New Year of Writing!

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There are two kinds of writers in the world. And no, I don't mean fiction writers and nonfiction writers, plotters and pantsers, or...
Monday, October 3, 2016

GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT

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It’s Monday morning, and as I sift through the many submissions in my in-box, as well as those by my own clients, trying to plan the ...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

“There’s No Crying in Publishing!” (and other baseball rules of writing that work for me)

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I love writing. I love baseball. And I love the Boston Red Sox.  These are the truisms that direct my summers. Like most every wr...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Yes, Virginia, the Beginning Does Matter

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This morning I got an email from a writer that I found very disheartening. It went something like this: Dear Paula, I have writ...
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