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If You Don’t Know Me By Now

 

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Tomorrow, I’ve signed on to live tweet with Poets & Writers. What this means exactly is hard to say. But from 12-1, I am meant to field questions about being an agent/editor/writer. If you want to participate but can’t think of any questions, here are some starter questions:

  1. who is the sexiest publisher in NYC?
  2. how many pages does an editor read before typically rejecting a manuscript?
  3. do you have to know someone to get published?
  4. What is the most important social media a writer should be on?
  5. What are publishers looking for?

So if this sounds like your idea of fresh hell, please join us on #agentadvice

 

 

 

4 Responses

  1. Hahaha would love to have you as my agent. What a hoot

  2. Will Bob Dylan be singing the second question?

  3. If you’re like me, you have a love/hate relationship with Twitter. I’ll definitely have to drop in and see how things are going.

  4. Finally, a reason to figure out how to use Twitter.

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