Janet Reid, Literary Agent

    I have a question that I'm hoping you could please help with. I'm in the middle of the 3rd draft of a fant...

    I have a question regarding my WIP. I came up with a fabulous concept for a novel set in the ancient world about 8 years ago, but ...

  Dear Janet, I just wanted to update you and the Reefers, after you so kindly answered my questions and calmed my panic in the blog post &#...

 

  Oh good, it's a holiday. More time for petting me!

    My debut novel sold very poorly, largely because the publisher is an indie press who puts 100% of the marketing on...

    How much weight we should give to blurbs or recommendations for a novel from other authors.   I see so many blur...

    Yo, Sharkly one. Why is YA no longer booming?     Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I was about 8 years old and got my first...

  There I was, splashing about in the eX-Twitterstream, when a comment floated by from a writer who opined the current querying system was...

  Thomas W. Lippman spent nearly 40 years at the top ranks of American journalism. For most of that time he was at The Was...

  Recently, an incoming query misspelled the first word in the first sentence of the query. Of course I noticed. It w...

I've been told I need a social media presence. I work full time, and have a family so I have to be extra creative and targeted about w...

  Last week I was settling in on the couch at a new cat friend's apartment and found she was watching COPS.   I did not want to risk lif...

Dear SHARK:   Since agents reasonably will not open attachments or PDFs and since there seems to be no way that works to keep original forma...