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How To Pitch: Writer's Digest
Pen the perfect profile or stick to industry trends for this definitive writer's guide.

So What Do You Do, Gael Greene, New York Food Critic/Author?
Eating out "eight nights a week," the racy food writer details her recent hunger for blogging and books over articles.

So What Do You Do, Michael Musto?
As his greatest hits collection hits bookshelves, the Village Voice's gossip king explains ethical dishing, and why in the gossip sphere, blogs are the new black.

Pitching a Former Literary Agent: John Hodgman
The author of The Areas of My Expertise considers small type, hobos, and little gray books

Pitching An Agent: 'The Personal Touch'
This agent is committed to giving his clients the 'best service available' by representing 30 clients at a time.

Pitching An Agent: 'Looking For Exceptional Voices'
This team of agents will take on your fiction and nonfiction, at any stage in your career.

Pitching An Agent: 'Long-Term Vision for Writing Career'
Write what you know and let these specialized agents take it from there.

Pitching an Agent: 'Your Partner Through Every Stage'
Convince these agents your nonfiction is new and marketable, and they'll take you from proposal to publication.

Pitching An Agent: 'Promoting An Author's Overall Career'
By providing 'a complete range of services,' this small shop goes beyond traditional agencies to sell its authors.

Pitching An Agent: 'I'll Work With The Author to Make It Saleable'
This documentary producer-turned-agent holds nonfiction close to her heart and will help broaden your book's sales

Pitching an Agent: The Nonfiction Boutique
If you've got an uplifting work of nonfiction about pets or parenting with a personal touch, this agent wants to work with you.

Pitching An Agent: Repping Those Who Want to Write Full-Time
If you're cooking up a series or have a multi-book plan in mind, this agent wants to work with you, especially if you write nonfiction.

Pitching An Agent: Retaining Clients For The Long Haul
With six-figure film rights sales and a wealth of longtime clients, this hands-on agent takes care of her authors.

Pitching An Agent: Taking On New Nonfiction Authors
This magazine editor-turned agent recruits writers to pen funny, "practical nonfiction" books.

Pitching An Agent: Laura Langlie
This 'very persistent' agent has been known to invest four years in helping her clients secure book deals.

Pitching An Agent: After 'Experts In Various Subjects'
Pop and commercial novels through "genuinely new" tomes sought by nine-agent team -- prior publishing credits not required.

Pitching An Agent: Your Calls Answered, Any Time
This agent accepts those "frantic Saturday calls," and seeks clients who've got multiple books in them.

Pitching an Agent: Nonfiction 'An Easier Sell'
While these agents dig a well-written true story, they'll accept across genres if writers bring a "voice" and a clip or three.

Pitching an Agent: 'Willing to Help Guide Authors' Careers'
This agent's desire to develop his client list means he may be eager to represent your interesting narrative nonfiction, and he'll collaborate to aid new authors whose proposals need polish.

Pitching an Agent: Guiding Authors 'So They Can Do This For Life'
Across a majority of genres, 'a cute idea and a cute concept' will win this agent's attention.

Pitching an Agent: Door Open to Innovative Authors
When collaborating with authors, these agents 'become as excited about a project as the person who started it.'

Pitching an Agent: Inviting Authoritative, Distinctive Voices
Got a protagonist "who sees the world from a unique perspective?" Non-fiction in an authoritative voice? This agent wants it all.

Pitching an Agent: 'Open To All Kinds of Projects'
Though this new agent's eager to acquire regardless of subject matter, if your book project's about extreme sports, you may be her match made in author/agent heaven.

Pitching an Agent: Nail the Three-Sentence Query
This newspaper reporter-turned-literary agent hasn't lost the penchant for brevity, so book pitches sent her way shouldn't waste words.

Pitching an Agent: Discovering 'Important New Voices'
A former acquisitions editor, this agent collaborates with authors to give them the best possible shot in the marketplace.

Pitching an Agent: Giving Authors 'A Competitive Advantage'
By blogging about submissions she's greenlit and passed on, this one-woman agency couldn't make matching her tastes any easier.

Pitching an Agent: Got a Gimmick?
"Gimmicky" isn't a bad word to this fiction agent, who likes his mystery, romance and young adult series linked by a theme.

Pitching an Agent: Bob Mecoy / Creative Book Services
Can you write about popular science as narrative? If so, this agent says he'd kill for your work.

Pitching an Agent: Lori Perkins Agency
Writing the Latino Gone With the Wind shoots you straight to the top of Perkins' slush pile, but send this journalist-turned-agent your social science fiction or feminist erotica, too.

Pitching an Agent: Ben Salmon / Rights Unlimited
An eclectic list of bestselling authors and a domestic rights arm still in its infancy makes this agency an ideal launchpad for authors seeking extra attention

Hey, How'd You Score That Freelance Life?
An expert offers strategies for making the leap into full-time freelancing.

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9-Year-Old Author Throws Cupcake Book Party - Posted March 30, 2012
Nine-year-old author and cupcake blogger Carrie Berk just co-wrote ... [GalleyCat]

Columnist Details Sexcapade with Top Chef Player and Personal Assistant - Posted January 24, 2011
Wow. That's all we can say after reading today's TheFrisky.com recollection by Rachel Kramer Bussel (pic... [FishbowlLA]