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Dr. Paule Joseph did not set out to write a book. A nurse scientist, TED Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, and internationally recognized expert on smell, taste, and sensory health, she had spent years studying how our chemical senses shape memory, emotion, […]
What does it really take to write, sell, and sustain a successful nonfiction book today? In a recent Lucinda Literary Q&A, Lucinda Halpern sat down with Ron Friedman, award-winning psychologist and bestselling author of The Best Place to Work, Decoding […]
After years of representing nonfiction authors, I’ve come to believe that the books most likely to get signed — and most likely to sell — share one quality above all others: they pair an original idea with stories readers can’t […]
I want to tell you how I came into this career — not because my story is unusual, but because I think there are lessons writers can take from it.
For those of you who identify as Crusaders, Everywhereists, Ideators, or Data Collectors, you may already know where this story is going.
Get Signed: Find a Book Deal, Land an Agent, and Become a Published Author (Hay House; February 2024) is a playbook for aspiring authors looking to find an agent and land a book deal. But what happens after that? Author of Get […]
The Myth of the Overnight Book Deal There’s a myth that once a book gets signed, publication quickly follows. An author has a great idea. They write it. An agent signs them. A publisher buys it. The book lands in […]
At Lucinda Literary, we often meet authors who have the pieces of a strong nonfiction book: a clear area of expertise, stories worth telling, and a point of view that can help readers see something differently. But having the pieces […]
In May, we hosted Lucinda Literary’s 2026 Writers Symposium in New York City, bringing together a small group of writers, agents, and editors for a weekend of candid conversation about publishing today. We opened the Symposium with one of my […]
Lucinda Halpern notes that understanding what publishers look for in a book deal is often the missing piece for authors trying to navigate today’s publishing landscape. Sometimes the idea follows an existing platform, and the writing follows from there. For […]