Publishing industry veteran Alan Rinzler explains how to get a book agent for self-publishing authors. Agents are difficult to secure, but writers need to produce high quality writing, so writers should work with an editor to create professional work...

Literary agent Amy Levenson knows publishing isn't just about reading great manuscripts; it's about hard work, too. Levenson explains how and why a background in business is imperative for an agent, as well as a few other things that might be surprising...

Kathleen Ortiz, Sub rights Director and Agent at Nancy Coffey Literary Agency, is an experienced digital strategist. She discusses how her agency is leveraging the ebook format and other efforts to improve an author's position. She also shares her thoughts...

Chuck Sambuchino, freelance editor and author of the "Guide to Literary Agents Blog," shares his perspective on the current climate for literary agents and how they work around the challenges facing them today. For example, the selection of self-published...

Literary agent Amy Levenson knows publishing isn't just about reading great manuscripts; it's about hard work, too. Levenson explains how and why a background in business is imperative for an agent, as well as a few other things that might be surprising...

Books can change lives and help people change the world. Georgia Hughes, editorial director of The New World Library, offers advice on how to be a change agent with your book. She says that being a change agent is finding a way to convey your message...

Chuck Sambuchino, freelance editor and author of the "Guide to Literary Agents Blog," shares his perspective on the current climate for literary agents and how they work around the challenges facing them today. For example, the selection of self-published...

Publishing industry veteran Alan Rinzler explains how to get a book agent for self-publishing authors. Agents are difficult to secure, but writers need to produce high quality writing, so writers should work with an editor to create professional work...

Cyndi Hughes, past Executive Director of The Writer's League of Texas, offers an overview of how to find an agent and why it's important to focus on the genre you're in and on using the great resources available to find the agent that fits your needs...

Many writers wonder when the best time to contact an agent about their book is, and the answer is complicated. Agents Jennifer Weltz and Jean Naggar offer advice on what kind of groundwork authors can lay even before they make that first contact, as...