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Your First Novel: An Author Agent Team Share the Keys to Achieving Your Dream

December 24, 2011 by SellingBooks Staff

In Your First Novel, novelist Laura Whitcomb and seasoned literary agent Ann Rittenberg team up to provide you with the skills you need to write your dream novel and the savvy business know-how to get it published. In this all-in-one resource, you'll discover essential novel-writing techniques, such as:How to best structure your research so that you can save time later. How to … [Read more...]

How to Write a Query Letter

August 6, 2010 by John Fayad

The query letter is a concise, compelling statement of the overall idea or central purpose of your book, a brief description of your target audience, and the benefit(s) your audience will gain from having read your book. It must convincingly describe why your book is unique or superior to others written on the subject and why you are the one person most qualified to write … [Read more...]

Agent 101 – Literary Agency Sales and Querying the Right Agent

February 11, 2010 by Robert L. Bacon

If querying literary agents isn't difficult enough, how is a writer who is attempting to break into the business supposed to decipher the sales figures that are posted by major agents in areas such as the Dead Reckoning section of Agent Search (which is superb by the way) when individual statistics during a 12 month period might indicate the placement of over 100 titles by a … [Read more...]

Book Agent Query Letters – Finding the Right Agent For Your Novel

June 30, 2009 by Robert L. Bacon

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