Daniel Bautz

Tag: Agents

  • More Likely To Get Rich In A Gold Rush? Gold Miners or Mining Equipment Vendor

    Weird question? How does this relate to writing or the creative arts? That’s fair to wonder how. But it does. Just looking at the industry built around writing, which is more likely to have a career in publishing that supports you well? Writers? Agents? Editors? Publishers? In the grand scheme of things, the number of…

  • I Had A Good Day. Even If The Bookends Sucked.

    Yesterday, I had a good day. It was productive and I felt emboldened. It started poorly and ended on the same note, poo. That didn’t diminish the productiveness of the day or my spirits. I’m learning to take somethings not so harshly and realizing that the to keep working is the key to good spirits.…

  • Query Fatigue

    Man, I am tired of researching. How about you? Agents, agencies, publishers, comp titles, honing and personalizing that all important query letter. I am tired. My energy for it, well, gone. I am tired of scrolling through twitter accounts, wish lists, and interviews. My least favorite part of all of it, finding an agent whose…

  • Queries In Quarantine

    Queries happen in times that I set aside my busy work week. Well, all that has changed. It takes me hours to send a query. I don’t blanket query agents. While I may query multiple agents in a querying session, I only send to the ones that seem a good fit for my current manuscript…

  • Author Quotes: How We Handle Our Fears

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    Author Quotes: Don’t Wake Me

  • Author Quotes: Show Me I Try

  • Would You Rather – Revise or Query?

    As writers working toward becoming published, we need to do specific tasks. Some are less fun than others. It’s exciting to finish your novel. It’s daunting to take the next steps to get that book published. Revisions are necessary to polish the manuscript. It’s more work than getting the first draft done. But after revisions,…

  • Friday, February 28, 2020

    My day started at 12:45 am. A loud, ripping sound woke me. It sounded like fabric being torn apart. I wish that were the case. The sound emitted came from my dog’s anus spraying diarrhea on the carpet. Welcome to Friday, four hours before your scheduled arrival. After Eclipsing the hour mark of scrubbing carpet…

  • The Dreaded Oops

    You know it’s perfect. Double-checked, triple-checked, revised, and reviewed. Free of errors and ready to send, you take one final look at your query. It is perfect. You hit send, and you’re pitching a literary agent. Your precise query is pitching your last year or more’s work. Then you see it. As the query disappears…

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