Finding a Literary Agent: Know Your Genre

Literary agents are extremely specialized in what they represent. Most represent only a few genres or subgenres, and they only represent stories they themselves love and are interested in. Just because you found a literary agent you like doesn’t mean that they represent the type of story you write. If you want to be successful…

Now Accepting Submissions for Critique

While I've been away, Open Pen-- the writing critique community on this blog-- has been closed. However, I am now accepting writing excerpts for critique again! If you are interested in having a piece of your prose or poetry critiqued by myself and others in the comments section, please head on over to the Open Pen Critiques…

Literary Agents 101

Navigating the publishing world can be difficult, but in this wonderful age of the internet, all the information you need for traditional publishing is available. It is just a matter of finding it. So here is a quick post about what literary agents are and why they are used. While they are not required for…