
Book publishing advice and community for authors of fiction and nonfiction, written by the agents at Neon Literary.
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It’s been seven months since I ran my last AMA, and I think it’s high time for another one. Or rather, I think it’s high time for me to drop a useful but low-effort newsletter this week so I can catch up on client work. [jazz hands]
Over t...
[Leans across the table, sloshing my third martini]
The straight answer to your question is no, you’re almost certainly not going to get the same advance for your next book — not from your current publisher, at least, and probably not from...
Or: effective self-promotion is just customer service in disguise.
Before I start razzing you, let me be clear: I do, in fact, care to hear more about the time Joe Biden was kind to you, because I care about you. How sacred it must feel to...
I suspect your problem might be different than you think.
I have one. Every literary agent I’ve asked has one. And over the years—talking to hundreds of authors—I’ve realized that most of you have one, too.
In which my answers go a little off track from libel law.
“How can I write about real people?”
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literary agent / cofounder of Neon Literary
Agent at Neon Literary.
Samuel Ashworth is a novelist and screenwriter in DC. He used to write regularly for the Washington Post until it was murdered by the coward Jeff Bezos.
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