Agent Advice: Howard Yoon of the Ross Yoon Agency
The agent answers questions about mentioning positive feedback in a query letter, how much plot to include in a query, and agents for teen writers.
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Department: The Practical Writer
Agent Advice: The Complete Series
Twenty-six of the industry’s best and brightest agents responded directly to readers’ questions in this column that ran from 2010 to 2022.
Book Advances 101: An Author’s Guide to Getting Paid
Drawing on experience publishing with both indie and large presses, the author answers the most commonly asked questions about book advances, like: Do I have to pay back my advance if the book doesn’t sell? And, what can I expect as a royalty rate?
First: Paul Tran’s All the Flowers Kneeling
Paul Tran speaks with Rigoberto González about their family and the intergenerational trauma at the center of their debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling.
The Fully Fact-Checked Memoir: Backing Up Facts, Standing Behind Truth
While editing her memoir about the history and methodology of mental health diagnoses, the author gains a new respect for fact-checking and more confidence in her book.
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Still So Much to Say: Honoring a Loved One’s Literary Legacy
After his mother’s passing, the author discovers the writing she left behind. Through his own experience as well as interviews with other literary executors, he considers the question: How can he publish a loved one’s posthumous works—and should he?
Agent Advice: Monica Odom of Odom Media Management
The agent answers questions about attracting agents using self-published books and whether to use a summary or a writing sample to pitch a memoir.
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Agent Advice: Larissa Melo Pienkowski of Jill Grinberg Literary Management
The agent who represents writers TJ Alexander and K. Tempest Bradford, among others, answers questions about being ghosted by agents and how to query for nonfiction books.
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Nonfiction Book Proposals: The Fine Art of Crafting a Literary Business Plan
Literary agents Alia Hana Habib and Jade Wong-Baxter and authors Chloé Cooper Jones and Daniel Barban Levin add their perspectives to this detailed look at crafting a nonfiction book proposal.
Agent Advice: Jade Wong-Baxter of Frances Goldin Literary Agency
The agent representing Chris Belcher, Kate Broad, Delia Cai, Duy Doan, and others offers advice about working with a coauthor, changing a memoir to fiction, why agents don’t consider previously published work, and how to become an agent.
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