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Interview with Valerie Bolling: Together We Ride

April 1, 2022 Joyce Audy Zarins

Joyce: Valerie, you certainly have been busy since I interviewed you for your first book Let’s Dance! Congratulations on your newest–Together We Ride from Chronicle

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Stay Organized with QueryTracker

July 19, 2019 Alison Potoma

For those of us in the query trenches. QueryTracker is a way for authors to search for literary agents and publishers, and keep accurate records

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When To Put Down Your Manuscript

April 25, 2017 Dana Nuenighoff

This past weekend, I had the privilege of attending the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators New England regional conference (NESCBWI) While there, I

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The Perfect Pitch

January 29, 2016 Dana Nuenighoff

If you’ve been in the query trenches before, or if you’re about to jump in, you probably know that there a few ways to get

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Agents: Another Way In

June 5, 2015 Joyce Audy Zarins

Do you have a completed manuscript? Have you been subbing it to agents, but have not found the perfect fit yet? There’s a new and

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How Many Queries Does it Take to Get an Agent?

April 24, 2015 Alumni & Guests

By Kristine Carlson Asselin The query letter. It’s something that strikes fear in the heartiest of us. Asking a stranger if they want to review

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What to Do Before & After “THE CALL” from an Offering Literary Agent

September 5, 2014 Alumni & Guests

By Jennifer Malone It’s my agent-iversary this month (two years since I signed with my lovely agent, Holly Root) and I’ve recently had a couple

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Victoria Wells Arms

Agent Interview: Victoria Wells Arms

February 4, 2014 Marianne Knowles

Victoria Wells Arms has spent over twenty years in publishing, beginning as an editor at Dial Books for Young Readers and later establishing the highly

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What I Learned In An Agent’s Inbox

December 6, 2013 Alumni & Guests

By Jen Malone This week I’ve been playing agent. And while I often fancy myself a secret agent, in this case I mean literary agent.

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Agent Interview: Emily Mitchell

July 9, 2013 Marianne Knowles

Today Marianne Knowles is chatting with Emily Mitchell, who joined the Wernick & Pratt Agency in May 2013. Emily began her career at Sheldon Fogelman

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