The Renegade Writer Blog

Maybe it’s because I worked in advertising and marketing for ten years that I’ve developed the hide of a crocodile around rejections. An editor doesn’t want to buy my article? Her loss, I think, then I figure out a new market for my brilliant idea. A magazine isn’t crazy about my lede? So I’ll rework [...]

This guest post is by Jennifer Lawler, author of more than two dozen books, magazine writer, and agent with the Salkind Agency.
I’ve been a writer for about fifteen years, writing mostly non-fiction books in the how-to and self-help categories. For the past few years, I’ve done a lot of coaching with writers and have [...]

Then head over to Lynne Scanlon’s a/k/a The Wicked Witch of Publishing blog and read — nay, study — what she writes about book publishing, networking, and why you should get off your ass more often. Her advice is dead-on. Why do I know this? Well, it worked for me. Case in point: it’s how [...]

If you’re curious about a certain agent’s selling record or you want to keep tabs on what your favorite book editors like to buy, Publishers Marketplace has a handy new tracking tool called Deal Tracker. Deal Tracker lets you specify a list of agents, agencies, editors, and/or publishers/imprints to track. Each time you visit the [...]

During my morning dose of snark, I learned that our friend Jenna’s site Absolute Write had been shuttered. Seems that one Barbara Bauer took offense being included in a list of the 20 worst literary agents on Absolute Write’s watercooler board.
Check out Bauer’s website here. The author matching form was especially humorous. Yeah, I’m [...]