2023 Literary Auction for Change

Literary Agents of Change is dedicated to expanding the agenting profession and publishing in general by supporting aspiring and rising agents from historically underrepresented groups.

Its first Literary Auction for Change opens bidding on June 12 and ends on June 18, and will feature offerings from literary agents, editors, and authors! Register in advance for easy bidding and reminders!

https://givebutter.com/c/laocauction #DEI #literaryagents

Tom Gauld on Cinderella and the fairy book agent – cartoon | Books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2023/mar/18/tom-gauld-on-cinderella-and-the-fairy-book-agent-cartoon #LiteraryAgents

Five Agents Tell You What You’re Doing Wrong... And How To Do It Right | LitReactor

https://litreactor.com/columns/five-agents-tell-you-what-youre-doing-wrongand-how-to-do-it-right #LiteraryAgents #writing

Hey #WritingCommunity, are there any #literaryagents out there who take on self-published authors? If not, how to find someone who can help guide an author's career?

#IndieAuthorNews #FeatureArticles #Catalan #ChildrensBooks #Coronavirus #COVID19 #Fiction #FILI #Finland #France #FrankfurtBookFair #GuestofHonor #Illustration #IndustryStatistics #LiteraryAgents
Rights Roundup: A New Trade Report From Finland

Our first Rights Roundup of the new year features work originally written in Finnish, Catalan, French, Swedish, Italian, and Czech.
The post Rights Roundup: A New Trade...
https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/01/rights-roundup-a-new-trade-report-from-finland/

BIPOC writers/authors: I interviewed Virginia Lloyd for 'Look - Its Your Book', she's rather wonderful and has put a list together on her blog of agents who identify as BIPOC as well as agents who are looking to represent BIPOC authors. https://virginialloyd.com/resources/
@auslit #literary #literaryagents #BIPOC #amwriting #writingcommunity

Reminder about #weneeddiversebooks's holiday fundraising #auction! Find #queryletter and #manuscript #critiques for #writers. Proceeds will support their programming, including their #bookssavelives initiative! Auction closes tomorrow 12/12 9pm EST.
@bookstodon @kidlit
#kidlit #yalit #authors #literaryagents #authorsofmasto

https://e.givesmart.com/events/tEB/

Mastodon has been great for networking, more so than The Bad Place - I've found so many #IndiePublishers, #SelfPublished #Authors, #LiteraryAgents and a few #TraditionalPublishing companies as well, and bookmarked them all ready for when it's time for me to start querying.

We'll just ignore that the whole process of querying is utterly alien and terrifying to me 😅

I signed with an awesome literary agent on October 21, 2022: Mark Falkin at Falkin Literary! I'm excited to see what the future brings this humble writer. Read more here:

https://scottsemegran.com/about/latest-news/345-scott-semegran-signs-with-falkin-literary.html

#WritersLife #WritersCommunity #writers #news #LiteraryAgents #publishing

In good news for writers, there's a thriving independent publishing scene in Australia of small yet mighty publishers such as Affirm, Black Inc , Brio Books, Fremantle Press, Giramondo, Griffith Review, Hardie Grant, Puncher & Wattmann, Scribe and more. Nov 24-26 the Small Press Network (SPN), of which these publishers are members, is running the annual Independent Publishing Conference. There will be some truly useful presentations/statistics/forecasts/workshops across the 3 days and you can attend online or in person at The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne. On Day 3 I'll be running a workshop on publishing timelines ie: what authors need to do when to successfully bring a book to market. So many great sessions. Check it out. https://smallpressnetwork.com.au/event/independent-publishing-conference-2022/

#writingcommunity #AusWrites #AusWriters, #publishing #IndPubCon22 #publishers #publishing #Australia #Melbourne #amwriting #literaryagents #indieauthors #selfpublishing #SPN #SmallPressNetwork #author #AuthorsofMastodon #authors #writers

International publishers wanting to translate Australian books: there is a $5k grant/contribution available from the Australian government via the Australian Council of the Arts - Tue Dec 6 deadline ...and that's AEDST time. https://australiacouncil.gov.au/investment-and-development/translation-fund-for-literature/ #Publishing #ForeignRightsAgents #LiteraryAgents #Fiction
#Poetry #KidsLit #GraphicNovels #NarrativeNonFiction #Autobiography #Biography #Essays #Histories #literary #authors #publisher