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"The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are."
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"The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity."
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"All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers."
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"The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised."
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"You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher."
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"We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!"
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"Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones."
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"I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped."
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"Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000."
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"The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor."
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"I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets."
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"I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science."
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"Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel."
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"Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed."
Money
"I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses."
Life
"The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are."
Publishing
"You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country."
Nation
"I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming."
Friendship
"I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes."
Experience
"Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior."
Pets
"My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework."
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