Posted on August 09, 2006 by Nancy Callahan

So now it’s a waiting game. My agent is currently submitting my proposal and clips to the major publishing houses I would never have dreamed of approaching on my own (…as nearly all of them refuse to touch unagented submissions). She’s promised to send all of their responses directly to me as soon as she gets them.

In the meanwhile, I’ve been reading a lot of blogs by *other* literary agents, just to get a feel for how they operate and what they think about various things. Here’s a sampling:

Rachel Vater’s blog

Agent 007’s blog

Kristin Nelson’s blog

Nadia Cornier’s blog

Matt Wagner’s blog

Miss Snark’s blog

BookEnds blog
(Jessica Faust, Jacky Sach, Kim Lionetti)

The Knight Agency blog
(Deidre Knight, Judson Knight, Elaine Spencer, Julie Ramsey, Nephele Tempest, Pamela Harty)

I too have a blog: Nancy’s Baby Names. The book I’m writing is a baby name book with a twist, so the blog (and its increasing traffic! yay!) will give me two things: first, a platform, and second, an easy way to market my book. If you’re a writer, I definitely recommend staking out some virtual territory and filling it with words.