Janet Reid, Literary Agent

On the Absolute Write discussion board, I just read a post by a writer who wants to self-publish, but also wants to make sure the manuscrip...

A post at GoodEReader.com shows results of a survey of British travellers: they'd rather haul paper books on holiday than an e-reader (n...

.....what happened 29 days ago? got it here (via an Amazing Editor who cracks me...

When you see 2012 in a query you think it's the year. Not the number of printed pages.

You just haven't heard it explained the right way. [I hate that so many people feel stupid about math and science. Math and science ar...

FSG recently posted an article by Sarah Manguso " How to Have a Career: Advice to Young Writers."   I definitely like the relen...

"the things you love don’t owe you anything – not success, not plaudits, not a decent night’s sleep, nothing. You give them your effor...

post your guess in the comments column. Those of you who guessed or knew it was Daxophone tongues are right of course. I found this i...

I'm a devoted fan of Shelf Awareness as regular readers of this blog know. Their daily email is a must-read start to the morning and I f...

Those amazing agents at BookEnds LLC have updated their very handy list of publishing terms here. There's really only one thing left ...

"I could quote Moby Dick all day, but when I go to write, when I clear my imaginative space of all the clutter and to-do lists of norma...

Here's a blog post with some helpful ideas to get you started.

tip of the hat to Jezebel.com

This announcement from the Mayborn School of Journalism sounds like a pretty cool deal! The Mayborn School of Journalism at the Universit...

End of the  year cleaning up is a tradition in my office.  Godsend Meredith Barnes has an eagle eye out for all the things that washed up on...

In case you can't see the text of the letter accompanying the shredded rejection letter and envelope: "A man of my brilliance...

Look what turned up in the mailbag this morning! Recently, I read a fascinating comment about the query letter: "...because it is sho...

From BoingBoing (via the amazing Steve Ulfelder--thanks!)

Slushpile Hell pulls brief sentences from Those Who Shall Remain Clueless TM If you read the blog, you're never going to end up on it. T...

I realize I have stuffed animals in my office, but I'm forced to say (after reading this ) that they were never actually REAL animals. A...