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From Amanda: How to Format Your Manuscript for Submission and Kindle Upload
Amanda Luedeke is a literary agent with MacGregor Literary. You can follow her on Twitter @amandaluedeke or join her Facebook group to stay current with her wheelings and dealings as an agent. First,...
View ArticleConspirators R Us
If you're a regular reader of my blog, you doubtless understand this blog is, at heart, a "publishing journalism" site. Things happen in the publishing industry, and I talk about them. There are...
View ArticleHow do you negotiate a book contract?
Kevin wrote to say, "I'm about to negotiate my own book contract! What is important for me to know?" If you're at the stage of negotiating your own publishing contract, congratulations. It means you've...
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Thursdays with Amanda: How to Hit the Kindle Best Seller List
Amanda Luedeke is a literary agent with MacGregor Literary. Every Thursday, she posts about growing your author platform. You can follow her on Twitter @amandaluedeke or join her Facebook group to stay...
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Career Planning in the Wild, Wild West
While on an agent’s panel at ACFW in September, I sat next to Lee Hough, one of the smartest and hardest working agents in the business. While we all fielded the typical questions we get as...
View ArticleJerry Jenkins, self-publishing, and the end of civilization as we know it
I’ve had more than a dozen people write to ask me about the new self-publishing service Jerry Jenkins has set up through his company, CWG. I’ve looked into it, read the stories, studied the comments,...
View ArticleGuest Blogger: John Robinson
We’ve been hosting some guest bloggers recently, and I wanted you to hear from John Robinson, an author who has been taking his out-of-print novels and putting them up as ebooks on Amazon… The 60′s...
View ArticleWhat’s the most important thing to know about book marketing?
Someone wrote to ask, “What is the most important thing I need to know about marketing my book?” To me, the most important thing for you to grasp as an author is that you are responsible for marketing...
View ArticleDoes a proposal marked “requested materials” get reviewed faster?
I’ve been using the past couple week to try and blow through a bunch of publishing questions people have asked, offering shorter-than-usual answers to try and get people the information they need. For...
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Thursdays with Amanda: Questions from Last Night’s GET PUBLISHED Teleseminar
Amanda Luedeke is a literary agent with MacGregor Literary. Every Thursday, she posts about growing your author platform. You can follow her on Twitter @amandaluedeke or join her Facebook group to stay...
View ArticleIf I were having brunch with a literary agent…
I’m spending the month answering questions authors say they would ask if they could sit down and have a conversation with me. I’ll be doing this the entire month of April, and I’m trying to get to all...
View ArticleHaving coffee with a literary agent…
Okay, so this month I’m asking people to send in questions — What is it you’ve always wanted to talk with a literary agent about? If you could sit down over coffee and just have a conversation, what...
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Thursdays with Amanda: How to Become a Hybrid Author
Amanda Luedeke is a literary agent with MacGregor Literary. Every Thursday, she posts about growing your author platform. You can follow her on Twitter @amandaluedeke or join her Facebook group to stay...
View ArticleIf I could sit down with a literary agent and ask ANYTHING…
This month I’m trying to get to all the questions people say they’d like to ask an agent, if they could just sit down with him or her for a few minutes and talk privately. Here are questions that...
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Thursdays with Amanda: How to Become a Hybrid Author, Part 2
Amanda Luedeke is a literary agent with MacGregor Literary. Every Thursday, she posts about growing your author platform. You can follow her on Twitter @amandaluedeke or join her Facebook group to stay...
View ArticleIf you could sit down to dinner with a literary agent…
Imagine this: You get to sit down to have dinner with the literary agent of your choosing. You can ask anything you want? So… what would you ask? I’ve been taking the entire month of April to let...
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Thursdays with Amanda: The Future of Publishing According to Me
Amanda Luedeke is a literary agent with MacGregor Literary. Every Thursday, she posts about growing your author platform. You can follow her on Twitter @amandaluedeke or join her Facebook group to stay...
View ArticleHaving a Nite-cap with a Literary Agent
We’ve been taking the month of April and inviting writers to send in the questions they’d like to ask a literary agent. So if you could sit down one night, over a nite-cap, and ask a literary agent...
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Thursdays with Amanda: The Future of Literary Agents in a Digital World
Amanda Luedeke is a literary agent with MacGregor Literary. Every Thursday, she posts about growing your author platform. You can follow her on Twitter @amandaluedeke or join her Facebook group to stay...
View ArticleWhat advice would you give to an author thinking about marketing?
A longtime friend in the industry said she had been reading my blog for years, and decided to put a bunch of thoughts of mine together into an article for her authors who were asking about marketing....
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