Hook to Book
Jeff ShreveA step-by-step guide for nonfiction authors to pitching, writing, and publishing your book, by literary agent Jeff Shreve
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Pausing Hook to Book
The non-self-indulgent version of this post
These types of posts tend to be a bit self-indulgent, so let me cover the actual takeaways for you right up front: Hook to Book is going on a hiatus of indefinite length, but I will be leaving...
From Book Deal to Book Contract
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My last post ended on an exciting note: the long-awaited moment of accepting a publication offer from a publisher for your book. That offer was likely short enough to say in one breath: something lik...
From Hook to Book Deal
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Today (the day I’m writing this introduction to this post) is April 6. Today was a Pitch Day—this morning I started pitching editors for a new project, and I wasn’t finished with those initial pitches unti...
How to Vet a Literary Agent
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As I outlined in the last post, the odds are stacked against you when it comes to pitching literary agents. We are continuously pulled in countless different directions wit...
How to get a literary agent
Two weeks back, I discussed a few scenarios where you (gasp) might not need a literary agent. If you didn’t find any of those scenarios applied to you, or if you did but decided you still want to seek representation—or if you didn’t read...
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