Tag Archive for ‘Molly Lyons’
Moving Day
Welcome to the new home for my blog, next door to my website. After today, I won’t post to my old ‘wordpress.com’ site anymore. I know this site looks a little different. I’d love to hear what you think. I have an exciting line-up of guest writers in the next month, including literary agent Molly Lyons on how to have the best relationship possible with your agent, Martin Kihn on writing “yet another non-fiction book proposal for a memoir about (yawn) a [...]
Stop! Before You Try to Get an Agent …
Molly Lyons of the Joelle Delbourgo Literary Agency on the questions agents wish you’d ask yourself before you send a query or a manuscript: As an agent, I see proposals and manuscripts at all stages. Some of them are just a glimmer of an idea hidden inside a lot of text; some are polished to a gleam, ready to be sent out to publishers. Often it’s difficult to see the potential in the projects I’m sent because their authors haven’t [...]
