Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Yes, you can get a book deal from a blog

Cheryl Klein, the Scholastic editor who'll be with us at our November writing retreat, writes about how one prospective author's blog really helped sell the writer and her work.

It's a good reminder about the power of new technology. If you do this stuff right, editors will get a sense of who you are, what you love, and whether they'd like working with you. Do it wrong--say by posting your rejection letters with snarky rejoinders, whining, or hoisting other red flags--and it follows that you might lose out.

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