Our Director of Worldwide Copyright Operations, Kelly Figueroa-Ray, graduated this weekend, receiving her doctorate! So if you write to us, please address her as Dr. Director of Worldwide Copyright Operations Kelly Figueroa-Ray, PhD. Congrats, Kelly! This week we feature a rather new agency, two contests for big money, #MSWL entries, and some poetry at the … Read more
We apologize for y’all who subscribe getting sent this twice (or some version of it sent twice): we’ve been having site problems, and the friendly fellow trying to fix them published a test version, which y’all probably got. So, sorry about that. My wife turned in her dissertation last week. We have just started to … Read more
For everybody who was just dying to know whether or not I took my wife out to dinner for Valentine’s day: I prevailed! Dinner was at home. Of course that meant flowers, and some incredibly expensive meat exquisitely prepared by yours truly, but it was here, and not out at some overwhelmed and understaffed restaurant … Read more
Well, another Valentine’s Day is upon us. I’m desperately trying to convince my wife that it is the absolute worst night of the year to go out to dinner (years in the service industry teaches you a thing or two). So far, it’s not working. Luckily, I have other things to distract me from the … Read more
Any and all debates about climate science aside, I for one am sick of it being 50 degrees and sunny at Christmas. When I was a child, there was always snow at Christmas (and school was uphill both ways, blah blah blah, GET OFF MY LAWN!), and the spate of seasonal songs that describe the … Read more
Welcome to our fourth Get Published Weekly Roundup! This week we highlight new agent hires and promotions, notices of approaching writing and submission deadlines, highlights from the past week’s Manuscript Wishlist, and a couple of helpful articles at the end. We’d love to hear your feedback. Please let us know what you think in the … Read more