Happy New Year to all Fresh Books clients and partners I had a great year in 2010, which is important because as my business grows it helps me to help my clients find more opportunities. For a literary agent, I find myself doing increasingly more business with video training libraries and online courses. For my business it’s important to look …
Client Updates, June 2010
I hope you’re having a great June. I have a short round-up of books, new and old. One I missed earlier in the year: congratulations to Christina and Bill Loguidice on the publication of Wii Fitness for Dummies (Wiley). Congratulations to Roger Ma on the publication of the Zombie Combat Manual: A Guide to Fighting the Living Dead (Berkley). I’m …
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I met an impressive man the other day. My wife and I were buying a used motorized wheelchair for my grand-father-in-law. We found it on Craigslist and negotiated the fee and everything ahead of time by phone and drove to meet the seller, Justin. It turns out that Justin has a business maintaining and reconditioning motorized wheelchairs. He serves about …
Happy 2010!
Welcome to my new WordPress blog. I’ve moved the entire site to WordPress in order to more easily update client news and bios and my submission guidelines. 2010 has been super busy so far with plenty of new books in the works and plenty more coming down the pike. 2010 is also my fifth year anniversary at Fresh Books. I’m …
New Books!
Congratulations to Eric Groves, SVP at Constant Contact, on the publication of The Constant Contact Guide to Email Marketing, now out in hardcover from Wiley. Congratulations to book packaging duo Harold and Phyllis Davis on the publication of the amazing Photoshop Darkroom: Creative Digital Post-Processing from Focal Press. Harold is also launching a new Creative Digital Photography Tips and Techniques …
Summer News and Updates
I kept it to myself but we had a long spring here as my mom moved in with us at the beginning of the year and passed away in May. I ended up spending half this year as caregiver and half as agent, and it was a challenge. I’m fortunate that my authors continued to chug right along and that …
2009 Updates!
I’ve been woefully out of blogging mode and had some problems logging on for updates but that has been resolved, and the beat does go on and I have plenty of news and new books. There’s no doubt that the book industry is troubled right now, and the loss of many independents and the weakness of Borders especially is cause …
Fresh Books: addicted to backlist edition!
I have a lot of new “for Dummies” titles this fall. I’m probably unique among agencies in how many books I’ve done with Wiley (and previously IDG), but that’s my reward for working with some of the very first Dummies authors. As the tooth fairy says when she comes to our house, “thanks for the teeth, I love the teeth,” …
Some Advice on Sending Queries
I just mailed out a bunch of rejections this morning, which is never very fun. Based on what I read today I wanted to add a few quick faux pas and some general advice! Many agents will take electronic queries these days (I prefer them). You can save yourself postage and reach out to those agents electronically. You might also …
The Myth of Multitasking Blog Tour
It’s great to see the kick-off of Dave Crenshaw’s blog tour in support of the The Myth of Multitasking: How “Doing it All” Gets Nothing Done. He made a great effort to reach out to like-minded bloggers, folks who write about productivity, time management and organization, and he’s been successful so far. In the last three days Dave has been …