Recently, a prospective client told us she had received a rejection letter from an agent in which the agent said she had been on the fence about the book and after much debate within herself, had decided to pass on it. Well, we were impressed. That kind of “good” rejection is hard to come by. […]

One of our authors, the writer of a darling children’s book about a hedgehog and his special larch tree, is just beginning the process of trying to sell her book TANNI. In the meantime, she has already become famous in a way as one of the 238. Sandra Assmann, our author, submitted some of her […]

After reviewing hundreds of client manuscripts, we can say with some certainty that everybody has her or his favorite punctuation. Some people are fond of ellipses which make them look as if they are perpetually drifting off… Maybe trying to get off the page… Lately there have been a lot of semi-colon users; they write […]

Jennifer Egan has tweeted the first ever short story for Twitter. It appeared in ten installments @NYerFiction, the New Yorker Magazine Fiction Department’s Twitter handle. Egan is the author of several highly regarded books, including most recently the Pulitzer Prize-winning A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD. Below are the first three chapters (or stanzas?) of […]