Literary Agents
Coming Full Circle at the SFWC
Coming Full Circle at the SFWC By Meredith Jaeger In the early aughts, I dreamed of becoming a novelist. At my office job, I imagined what my characters might be doing—their lives were far more exciting than mine. For six months, I took classes through The Writing Salon at night, until finally, I had completed…
Read MoreWhy come to SFWC?
Here are 4 great reasons from co-director Lissa Provost why you should consider attending the San Francisco Writers Conference this year! Why come to SFWC? Access to industry professionals The San Francisco Writers Conference offers the highest ratio of industry professionals to attendees available. It’s actually between a 3:1 and 4:1 ratio, a number I…
Read MoreSowing Discord. Join Me!
By Laurie McLean, SFWC Director and Founding Agent at Fuse Literary This awful pandemic (I even hate typing the word) has abruptly forced us to change a lot of things in our lives. But besides the obvious negative things, it also left some space for new habits and new ideas to creep in. One of…
Read More2022 PUBLISHING PREDICTIONS
By Laurie McLean, SFWC Director and Founding Co-Partner at Fuse Literary Who could have predicted the bright ray of light that shined on publishing during this pandemic! But it did shine, and will continue to shine, as people rekindle their love of reading and writing! Publishing is more profitable than ever before in its history…for…
Read MoreAn Update from the World of Publishing (from an agent’s POV)
By Laurie McLean, Fuse Literary Co-founder and SFWC Director It’s mid-April as I write this, and the world has entered the second stage of this horrific pandemic. Most of us are staying at home, only going out for essentials like groceries and gas. Writers are either actively writing or at least keeping notes on their…
Read MoreBeneath the Ice: A Literary Agent Discusses Rejection
By Mary C. Moore at Kimberley Cameron Associates On the surface we literary agents may seem cold-hearted. We crush dreams on a daily basis after all. But it’s the nature of the submission process that causes us to form an icy defensive layer. There are websites dedicated to analyzing agent responses with writers seeking answers,…
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