Two things happen when I hear the word “agent.” I either picture an old-school real estate hack sportin’ a tweed…
Short version: I emailed a query to an agent at Folio Literary Management. Next day she requested the first fifty…
When it came time for me to find an agent, I did all the right things. Except for one very…
I was in Berlin when I got “The Phone Call.” For those of you who aren’t aspiring to publication, The…
Deb Sarah is thrilled to announce The Opposite of Me will be excerpted in Bethesda Magazine’s March/April issue! Graduate Deb…
Thriller writer Karin Slaughter has the kind of career every author dreams about — a string of New York Times bestselling…
With Banned Book Week on the horizon, I’ve been thinking… While having a book banned is probably some writers’ worst…
Ok, fine, you caught me. I don’t really have a gerbil, but my son would looooove to have one, —and…
Like most kids who devoured James Herriot books, I dreamed of becoming a large-animal veterinarian. I envisioned an adult life…
I usually write these blogs a week ahead of time, just to be safe. You see (cue knife-shrieking music as…