McCormick & Williams Open for Business
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that Collins McCormick Literary Agency was disbanding. The news at the time was that David McCormick was leaving the firm, that the split was amicable, and that Nina Collins would continue under her own name. The agency was home to authors such as Elizabeth Kostova, Matthew Sharpe, Julie…
continue readingMacAdam/Cage Website Launched
McAdam/Cage has been one of my favorite publishers for some time now. And the good news out of San Francisco is that they recently re-launched their corporate website. The new design looks great and the awesome catalog is presented to show all their fantastic books. Congratulations guys. Very well done.
continue readingMiss Snark Agrees that to Answer is Divine
Longtime readers of Slushpile know that one of my biggest irritations is when editors (fiction or nonfiction), agents, journals, and publishers don’t respond to queries. Mistakes do happen and sometimes things fall through the cracks. I know some agents who haven’t responded to me about various submissions but in these cases I know that these…
continue readingLestat Joins the Church
Anne Rice, the foremost chronicler of vampires and the children of the night, the lady who wrote softcore S&M books under a psuedonym, has been converted. Her new novel, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt is scheduled for release November 1. The book is about Jesus at age 7, and it’s narrated by Christ himself.…
continue readingUnusual Ideas Get Published
It seems to me that there are about three ways to get published these days. First, you just have to write an extraordinary book. That seems an awfully simplistic statement, but it’s true. Getting a book published isn’t a right, it’s not a guarantee, as much as I might wish it otherwise. So the primary…
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