We have a scintillating international panel for your entertainment and enjoyment tonight. Leading lawyer, author and Litopia Daily’s newshound Donna Ballman is back from her travels and ready to dispense some authorial wisdom. She’s joined …
Posts Tagged ‘literary agents’
Why Don’t They Just Burn The Books?
Peter’s looking ahead to the next couple of weeks on LITOPIA DAILY – there are some wonderful treats in store for you – and then, he tries to deliver the news, too…
In today’s Write Report, …
It’s FutureAgent!
Today’s our last chat with Canadian author Mary W. Walters whose seminal blog post has stirred and shaken literary agents on both sides of the Atlantic. What future is there for the agent in tomorrow’s …
Agents With Attitude
When Canadian author Mary W. Walters wrote a blog post accusing literary agents of performing a disservice to both authors and publishing, she opened the floodgates to a tsunami of accumulated authorial resentment. Today, we’re …
Authors – Keep Out!
We continue our discussion with author Mary W. Walters whose blog post criticising the role of literary agents in today’s publishing business has ignited a firestorm of controversy. Do agents simply provide material that publishers …
Agents Are Ruining Publishing
Canadian author Mary W. Walters penned a seminal blog post some three weeks ago that’s attracted unprecedented attention amongst writers and the publishing world generally. Entitled The Talent Killers: How Literary Agents Are Destroying Literature …
Jane’s Resurrection
By 1850, Jane Austen had been dead for thirty years, her writing had largely fallen out of favor and the mid-19th century greats (Wilkie Collins, Dickens, the Brontës) had grabbed the mass market and the …
The Bad News Is that Getting Published Has Never Been Easier
It’s never been a better time for first-time writers to get published, says Peter – but there’s also a rather big downside to publishers’ constant quest for the Next Big Author. In today’s Write Report, …
Will You Remember Me Tomorrow?
How about dividing your manuscript into two books – each one written from a different point of view? And should you re-submit your amended manuscript to the same publishers/agents you sent it to last time? …
The Rights and Wrongs of Rights
Rights and sub-rights – what do you really know about them? Peter gives you a briefing. In today’s Write Report, Dame Margaret Drabble feels pressurized to dumb herself down… and Harry Potter breaks yet another …
Art for Art’s Sake
In the week when Damien Hirst made $198 million selling pickled animals, famed art critic Robert Hughes all but crucified Hirst and his “dull witted” patrons in an outspoken attack published in The Guardian.
On Litopia …
How To Get A Literary Agent, part two
Today’s show concludes yesterday’s discussion between Peter and Peggy Brusseau about what you should ask your prospective literary agent; Donna brings us the latest news featuring a landmark copyright / piracy lawsuit that has implications …
How To Get A Literary Agent, part one
Peter introduces a special studio guest to discuss what writers should ask a prospective literary agent; Donna brings us the latest news about Banned Book Week featuring an attempt to ban Of Mice & Men …
Harry Potter Vs. Hari Puttar – Round One to Puttar
Peter exercises himself (for which, read rants) on the subject of writers paying to spam agents with e-mail submissions; Donna brings us the latest news featuring a legal win in India for the Hari Puttar …
Corporate Publishing is Doomed
In the week when the world’s financial industries appeared to go into meltdown, Litopia After Dark zeroes in on the impact this will have on the publishing industry.
What effect will the credit crunch and looming …
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