Two authors tell how they landed their agent and got published.
Anne A. Wilson
I was forty-three when I wrote my first novel and realized I’d found my passion. Several years and four novels later, I finally decided to try to land an agent and get published. Here’s how I found success. For the record, I never truly considered self-publishing. Let’s just say, I’m old enough to know what I don’t know. And in the world of publishing, that was practically everything. Read More…
Renée Ahdieh
On a chilly winter’s eve back in 2013, my forlorn, un-agented self was perusing Janet Reid’s blog. I kept noticing the Query Shark speak in a teasingly scathing tone of another agent. An agent who had been driving her mad of late, yanking riches out from under her well-primed nose.
That agent’s name was Barbara Poelle. (For more on Barbara, click here.) I’d seen this agent’s name here and there, but wasn’t certain I wrote in her wheelhouse. Nevertheless, I’d already relegated myself to a night of Google tomfoolery, so I conducted a search and found that she and Holly Root were offering a Query Critique Webinar through Writer’s Digest in a few short weeks. Read more….