Janet Reid, Literary Agent

 A lot of authors are facing an even steeper uphill battle with book promotion these days.  The field was noisy last year, this year it'...

 Yesterday I attended a Zoom presentation by Jonathan Slaght for his book Owls of the Eastern Ice. Honestly it was as refreshing as a two mi...

  I took a week off from social media of all sorts and it was very instructive.   I got a lot of reading done, much ...

 

 I knew I was going to take a break this coming week even before the election was called on Saturday. My nerves are just jangled. My concent...

 I had to get a notary stamp on some papers this week. I trekked over to the abogado's office on the next block (I live in an old Domini...

About the only thing I can get done are small things that don't require much thinking. Here's one: Rodney Smith is a guy who mows la...

 yesterday wasn't good for thinking let alone writing. I cleaned. Sort of. I refreshed the NYT and the WaPo websites fiendishly, and the...

  Amber!  I'm writing this on Election Night at 10:47pm. I'm beside myself. The only thing to do was go read the flash fiction conte...

Recently I needed to send some dough to a pal of mine.   The bank wanted to charge me $25 for one ACH transfer so I thought "I wi...

I had a whole extra hour to read your work! It was a very worthwhile use of bonus time! Words I had to look up Ocker shanepatrickwrites u...

The only improvement on the week before this one is that I wasn't laid low by some horrible cold weather malady. Early voting has start...

October 10's blog post made me wonder : to what extent can you use and quote (scientific) information found in other books?  I'm th...

 I forgot to write a post for today. so how about this instead: Danuta Danielsson, Jewish woman whose mother survived Auschwitz, hitting a n...

Query manager has become almost the norm for agents to use. I have my dislikes about it, but my biggest question that has been daunting on ...

We had a low turnout this week; Might it be exasperation about how slow I was on last week's result?  What we lacked in quantity, we mad...

Results for No One Moves to NY for the weather contest. You'll be forgiven for thinking I'd been kidnapped by aliens this past week....