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Adapted from my recent conversation with the Team O community. Questions have been reframed and my responses edited and condensed for clarity. For many authors, making The New York Times bestseller list feels like the ultimate validation. But what happens […]
Most of the writers I talk to want the same thing: to get signed, get published, and get there now. So when I mention that our Manuscript Momentum Retreat takes place in September 2027, the first reaction is almost always […]
Are you excited to develop your book title? For most of the writers I work with, the honest answer is no. You’ve poured months, maybe years, into the ideas, research, and chapters. The title feels like an afterthought, something an […]
Free AI templates are flooding agents’ inboxes, and they’re easy to spot. Here are the four tells that get a proposal passed on before your writing is even read.
Karlyn Ankrom has watched the same scene play out with author after author. Years spent writing the book. Months spent launching it. One triumphant week promoting it. And then, almost overnight, silence — and an author standing in the quiet […]
Sometimes, getting signed begins exactly as you might imagine: with a perfectly crafted pitch arriving in an agent’s inbox at precisely the right moment. Most get signed stories? Don’t happen that way. True Crusaders invent their own paths to success. […]
Most writers eventually arrive at the same question: How do I know when my book is actually ready for a literary agent? It’s tempting to believe there is a moment when everything suddenly clicks: the manuscript is finished, the query […]
When Shirley Liu decided she was going to write a book, she didn’t just sit down and start typing. She did something rarer, and smarter: she learned the industry first. Shirley came in with everything an agent wants to see […]
There is no single way into publishing. Katie Tallo is a particularly good example of that. Before becoming the bestselling author of Dark August and, most recently, Where Her Secrets Lie, Katie spent decades working as a screenwriter and director. […]
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 […]