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June 2010
19 June 2010
A Day in the Life of a Literary Agent
"I get asked at conferences all the time what a day in the life of a literary agent is like. Well, there's no such thing as a typical day, and to prove it, here's my approximate schedule from about mid-day yesterday through just-now today, which should give you a pretty good sense of some of the usual."
Authorial, agently and personal ramblings
14 June 2010
What makes a good bookshop?
"From my perspective though I don’t generally go to bookshops to buy the latest popular novel. I go to find something I don’t already know or to pick up a particular novel by a writer I rate. Depth isn’t that useful to me, breadth is. I don’t care if you have fifteen copies of Jordan’s new novel. I do care if you have a single copy of Hangover Square."
07 June 2010
Questions that authors are never asked
"What's the most blatant lie you've ever told?"
"While writing, do you take drugs, smoke marijuana or drink alcohol to beef up your creative imagination?"
"How many people have you done away with over the course of your career?"
"Do you ever write naked?"
These and other self-posed questions are answered by Nadine Gordimer, Ian Rankin, Jonathan Coe, Rose Tremain and others.
04 June 2010
Bookshelf Aesthetics
My wife once removed all the dust jackets from my books because they spoilt the appearance of the bookshelves. At least she didn't go this far:
01 June 2010
Secret Agent Clash
Competition is far from gentlemanly at the top end of town:
"One of the most powerful agents in the literary world, Esther Newberg, blasted rival super agent Andrew "The Jackal" Wylie for what she claims is his long-running practice of poaching writers from other agents. Newberg claimed Wylie recently tried to poach an unnamed writer from one of her younger associates at International Creative Management -- and she is out for revenge. "I am just lying in wait for the moment when I can get back at him," Newberg vowed."