Agent Hunting
I was thrilled by the response to my October 19th post, A Query Dissected, in which I shared the query letter that got me my agent and discussed some of the things I thought a query needed to be successful. But what if you are not quite there yet and don’t know which agents to approach? As difficult as writing a query letter was, I found searching for an agent to be even harder. How was I supposed to know which agents were reputable? How could I find out which ones represented my favorite authors? How would I know when I’d found the agent that was right for me? And so I’ve decided to write...
Read MoreWere the Brontës Science Fiction Authors?
Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It An Exhibition at the British Library (20 May – 25 September 2011) Were the Brontës science fiction authors? The British Library includes some of their juvenilia, along with Branwell Brontë’s map of the Glasstown Confederacy, an imaginary land he and his famous sisters invented when they were children, in its current exhibition, Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It. To be honest, when I first heard about it, I thought it was a bit of a stretch. I’m interested in the Brontë juvenilia and have probably read more of...
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Hi! I'm Lena, a young adult fantasy author from Toronto.