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Pitching to Agents: Why A Little Sweat’s Okay

May 1, 2013

If you're a writer, there's a reasonable chance that you've had conferences on the brain. I'm heading to OWFI in Oklahoma this week, while …

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Rejection and a Teflon Mind

October 4, 2012

I was sixteen when I went on my first modeling casting. For days afterward, I waited--and waited--for the phone to ring. When my agent …

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Author Roni Loren on Writing Sexy and Her Novel Debut

December 5, 2011

If the blogosphere were high school, Roni Loren would be a the cool girl. Maybe the coolest. When I stepped in as the new kid this past …

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How I Met My Agent (And You Could, Too)

October 20, 2011

If you're like many writers, the moment you stamped "complete" on your revised and polished manuscript, you dove into agent-seeking mode. By …

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