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Getting to know Clare Wallace – Rights Manager and Associate Agent
First of all, what is your role at the agency? Me between Mary, the Rights Assistant, and Vicki, the Agency Editor As the Rights Manager, I negotiate deals for translation rights all around the world...
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Our Top Ten Tips for Writing a Tip Top Covering Letter
No.10: Be helpful The thing that I feel compelled to start off by moaning about today isn’t directly linked to covering letters but it is very close to them, too often it is pressed right up against...
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11 Ways Not To Start Your Novel – No. 1
Oh hi! How have you been? Crikey, what sort of weather have we been having? And the traffic on the way here? Absolute nightmare. Especially with these petrol prices, don’t even get me started. Still,...
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Book Fairs and Book Worms
Jon Holder has dedicated Monster of the Month to London Book Fair and has created these bookish creatures… And Mary Darby, Rights Executive, is talking foreign rights. In the frantic run up to the...
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11 Ways Not To Start Your Novel – No. 2
With Your Protagonist Looking Into a Mirror The other day as I stared at my reflection in the bathroom mirror of my north London flat I recalled that my hair is fine and dyed a darker brunette then it...
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11 Ways Not To Start Your Novel – No. 3
With a Description of the Moon Quick! Pick a card, any card. Now think of a number between 1 and 10. Next think of a colour. And a vegetable. Got them all? OK? Carrot, red, 7 and either the Ace of...
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11 Ways Not To Start Your Novel – No. 4
With Onomatopoeia EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOW KER-SPLAT! I’m really sorry to have to tell you but that is the sound of a literary agent’s expectations plummeting at the sight of onomatopoeia in the first few...
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Getting Into Publishing – Keshini Naidoo Crime & Thriller Reader
Growing up, I was the classic ‘child-that-loves-books’, continually accompanied by a paperback or two and finding time to read when I was brushing my teeth, eating dinner or walking down the street...
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11 Ways Not To Start Your Novel – No. 11
At the Wrong Time At the Darley Anderson Agency we ask that any writers who wish to submit their work to us should provide the first three chapters of their novel as a sample of their writing. This is,...
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