Comments on Nathan Bransford - Literary Agent: This Week in Publishing

Discovery pile.That's awesome! A spoonful of suga...

2007-08-27T07:16:29.670-07:00

Discovery pile.

That's awesome! A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down.

Or something like that.

Editorial Anonymous had a link to your blog in the...

2007-08-26T09:48:10.913-07:00

Editorial Anonymous had a link to your blog in the comments section, so you'll probably get a lot more kidlit writers lurking around here. So keep it clean. And pass the cookies.

(Actually, one of the best kept secrets in kidlit writing is that we love to wear sparkly revealing outfits and drink mojitos at our conferences. How else do you think we get inspired?)

Oh, I just checked out the cliches. The "running h...

2007-08-25T11:07:33.977-07:00

Oh, I just checked out the cliches. The "running hand through hair" strikes perilously close to home...

I checked out the "favourite worst cliche contest"...

2007-08-25T07:42:16.957-07:00

I checked out the "favourite worst cliche contest" and it is killer. I can't vote...they're all so worthy of being banished forever!

(But I am pleased that I've already recognized and excised a few of them from my own projects!!!!)

Thanks for the posts, Nathan. Have a great weekend...

2007-08-24T14:53:08.139-07:00

Thanks for the posts, Nathan. Have a great weekend. I'm going to scuttle back over to the networking comments again, I haven't finished reading them yet.

Also, when you have the opportunity to do the quer...

2007-08-24T13:38:31.420-07:00

Also, when you have the opportunity to do the query stats again, could you let us know if people are sending the wrong genres for you? For example, I noticed that thrillers/mysteries seem to be the largest number in your previous tabulations, but isn't listed specifically in your "about me" interests. Do those ever catch your eye? Aside from poetry and screenplays, is everything else potentially fair game?

Thanks for doing a great job!

(blushing) - your welcome... and although I do adm...

2007-08-24T13:31:06.135-07:00

(blushing) - your welcome... and although I do admit to visiting Pubrants and a few other agents blogs also, you are my absolute favorite agent blog ever cause you give great advice and have the best sense of humor. In fact I fear I am actually addicted to your blog. I may need an interference...

Thank you for linking JL's guest post with EN--it ...

2007-08-24T12:29:08.624-07:00

Thank you for linking JL's guest post with EN--it was wonderful.

Anon-I tend to post those stats when I come back f...

2007-08-24T12:04:12.477-07:00

Anon-

I tend to post those stats when I come back from being out of the office because they're easier to tabulate all at once. But my next vacation isn't scheduled until, well, November 2008 at last check, so I may pick a week to do it in the nearer future. Thanks for the request!

I know you're busy, Nathan, but any chance you'll ...

2007-08-24T11:56:12.111-07:00

I know you're busy, Nathan, but any chance you'll post some query statistics again?

Thanks for the great blogs this week.