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Advice and bookish news from literary agent and author Eric Smith.
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Opening to Queries Again, or Why Agents Close to Certain Categories (opens the original)
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So, earlier this month I announced I was opening to queries again. I did a little post on Instagram, updated the agency website, posted on social media, you know, as one does. And then I promptly got a bundle of surprised messages. Because I was only looking for adult projects, and was closed for kid-lit. Look, I love working on books for kids. That’s also largely what I write, and I’ve tried really hard to build a name for myself in that space as an agent. I mean, here are just a few of the mos
On Growth (opens the original)
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How We Show Up, or There Are 15,000 Postcards in My Office (opens the original)
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