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Citizen Media Critic: Violet's 'Modern Family Living'
Finally, a magazine for families that look like yours

Neither His Nor Hers
Citizen Media Critic: Rachel Kramer Bussel on the latest offering in the "couples mag" genre

Citizen Media Critic: Lucky magazine
Writer Rachel Kramer Bussel discusses her conflicted relationship with the infamous women's shopping mag

How to Pitch: Heeb
Dripping in satire, this irreverent Jewish mag covers arts and culture for an audience that's 'plugged-in and preached-out.'

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

Who's Judging Your Book By Its Cover? Everyone
A good cover can make or break a book's sales. Learn the best way to share your thoughts about the cover design of your next book.

Anthologies 'R' Us
Anthologies are undergoing "a remarkable renaissance," so join the revolution with this expert advice.

How Many Friends Does Your Book Have?
Authors are using social networking site MySpace to help their titles find a broader audience, ramp up attendance at readings, and bring their characters to life, long past the book's last page.

It Takes Two To Make A Book Go Right
Are two authors better than one?

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: 'Submitting the Whole Packet'
These agents are authors themselves and understand both sides of the book-selling equation.

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: 'Dogged' Agent Will Sell Your Book
This 'very persistent' agent's been known to invest four years in helping her clients secure their 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: Julie Castiglia/ Castiglia Literary Agency
The door's wide open for fiction at this agency, while the agents' faves "women's novels and thrillers" are likely to score some extra attention.

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

From the Editors: Into Projects 'On The Edge'
'I adore narrative nonfiction,' says this hands-on editor eager to add female thriller writers to her wide-ranging list.

From the Editors: Seeking 'Books That Can Offer Real Benefit'
A publisher of books on the full range of religious traditions branches out to buy fiction, memoir, and more.

From the Editors: 'Experience and Passion' Sought Over 'Credits'
Collaborating with magazines via her house's many imprints makes a home for the writer's guides and humor titles on this editor's list.

From the Editors: After Authors Who 'Understand How Important Their Role Is'
This eco-friendly publisher seeks humorous short stories and informative nonfiction. Best of all? No platform required.

From the Editors: 'I'm Looking for a Really Strong Hook'
Seeking women-centered mysteries and thrillers, this editor wants authors who'll keep working even after the last revision is done.

From the Editors: 'One of Our Missions is Giving Unknown Authors a Shot'
This editor at an up-and-coming pulp imprint puts good writing above all: "We could care less whether someone has an agent."

From the Editors: 'We Strive to be a Home to Our Authors'
This non-fiction editor believes in transparency, looping his authors into decisions on covers, titling, marketing, and more.

From the Editors: 'I Love the Collaborative Effort'
This kids' book editor hopes her input will spark authors' creativity -- plus, she's in hot pursuit of a horse series that'll gallop off the page.

From the Editors: 'Always Think About the Audience'
Parenting books and prescriptive tomes are what this editor's after, especially with a title that highlights the book's hook.

From the Editors: Show That Proposed Book 'Isn't Already Out There'
This editor of current events, sports, and history titles doesn't let personal politics keep him from taking titles left, right, and center.

From the Editors: Hawaii Publisher Asks Authors to Bring 'Passion, Commitment'
This publisher of inspirationally-minded titles offers authors, 'editorial meetings on the beach, with or without mai tais.'

From the Editors: Self-Help With Attitude 'Sets Our Authors Apart'
With its 'long history of making authors out of first-timers,' Adams puts out titles it classifies as 'not your mother's self-help.'

From the Editors: 'Any Sort of Platform Helps' Crafts Authors
For their crafts titles aimed at a burgeoning market, this imprint's authors should "deliver more than just how-to instructions."

From the Editors: 'Potential Authors Almost Anywhere'
Whether "how-to books with a sense of humor" or "indie craft books," this editor's ideal titles "inspire readers to try something new."

From the Editors: 'Make Me Laugh'
Three Rivers Press wants pop culture and humor and keeps an eye on blogs, where "lots of undiscovered talent lurks."

From the Editors: Richard Nash, Soft Skull Press
Big pharma exposés and "books trying to figure out the conditions of American political culture" are all in a day's work for this wide-ranging publisher.

From the Editors: Stacy Boyd, Harlequin
No longer basic bodice-rippers, expand your definition of 'romance' for Harlequin and its slew of themed lines that spark editors' passion.

From the Editors: John Williams of Harper Perennial
Blogging is just one of the ways this editor stays abreast of the strong pop culture thread that runs through his imprint's titles.

From the Editors: Brooke Warner of Seal Press
This editor of adventurous women's titles has a maxim sure to be music to writers' ears: "The author is all-important to me."

From the Editors: Paul Stevens of Tor/Forge
First-time writers, take note: This sci-fi and women's fiction editor reads his submissions and takes on novice authors, acquiring books based on merit, not marketing hooks.

From the Editors: Marian Lizzi of Perigee/ Putnam
If you're a professional with a platform who writes "self-improvement for smart people," this editor may be your book's ideal shepherd

From the Editors: Tricia Boczkowski of Simon Spotlight Entertainment
'We put our authors through the airport test: If I got stuck in an airport with this person for eight hours, could we hang?'

From the Editors: Nichole Argyres of St. Martins
'A strong voice and clear message are paramount. Writing that is too quiet or internal doesn't resonate with me.'

From the Editors: Jessica Rozler of Allworth Press
Practical, Legal, and Business Guides For People Who Work In Creative Fields

From the Editors: Andrea Montejo of Rayo
The HarperCollins imprint introduces Latino books in English and Spanish

From the Editors: Kate Nitze of MacAdam/Cage
Literature isn't dead — it's at MacAdam/Cage

From the Editors @ Hyperion: Zareen Jaffery
A "big book nerd" grows up to be a big book nerd — for money

From the Editors: May Chen of Morrow/Avon
There's room in romance for experienced authors and first-timers alike

From the Editors @ Mysterious Press/Warner Books: Kristen Weber
Finding new voices in a familiar genre

From the Editors @ Kensington Books: Jeremie Ruby-Strauss
The editor hopes his new imprint will bring young men back into the bookstore

From the Editors @ Henry Holt: George Hodgman
A veteran editor looks for drama and believes it takes "time and money" to get a book right

From the Editors @ Chronicle Books: Steve Mockus
The eclectic pop culture publisher lets its editors experiment

From the Editors @ Carroll & Graf: Don Weise
History, biography, gay/lesbian books—Don Weise publishes what matters to him

From the Editors @ Bloomsbury: Panio Gianopoulos
Seeking the "moment of surrender"

From the Editors @ Perseus Books Group: Ellen Garrison

From the Editors @ Ballantine/Del Ray: Chris Schluep
A book may start out with the genre label, but popularity means no one cares what you call it.

From the Editors @ Razorbill: Kristen Pettit
YA doesn't mean easy or sleazy—books for teens are as rich and nuanced as those for adults.

From the Editors@ Warner Books: Jason Pinter
If you can get him laughing, you might just get a deal.

From the Editors @ HarperCollins:
Jill Schwartzman
Good news: Da Vinci Code ripoffs are growing scarce and women are allowed to write serious books again.

From the Editors @ Riverhead: Megan Lynch and Sean McDonald
At the Penguin imprint Riverhead, the emphasis is on younger writers and fewer titles.

From the Editors @ Random House: Julia Cheiffetz
This editor wonders where all the women writers went, but don't tell her "Chick Lit."

From the Editors @ Scribner: Brant Rumble
A sports fiend and music enthusiast on finding talent, enforcing a "no jerks" policy, and keeping an open mind

From the Editors @ Farrar, Straus and Giroux: Lorin Stein
A champion of the "outwardly eccentric" on mass appeal, the Home Land saga, and the strange economics of FSG.

From the Editors @ Simon & Schuster: Denise Roy
For this editor of "Adventures in Americana," the devil is in the details

From the Editors @ Grove, Atlantic: Amy Hundley
An editor on the "tyranny of influence" and how writers can find their own voice

From the Editors @ Doubleday: Kendra Harpster
An editor of young, edgy literary fiction on why "lad lit" failed and what it's like to work with first-time authors

From the Editors @ Atria: Brenda Copeland
A senior editor reveals why copycat books are a fallacy, how agents can do better, when you should listen to the market—and, why you sometimes shouldn't

From the Editors @ Little, Brown: Asya Muchnick
Our new, biweekly series takes you inside the minds of a new guard of book editors. In our first installment, Rachel Kramer Bussel talks to the editor of The Lovely Bones

Book Keeping: Freelancer Pens Cubicle-Busting Biz Book
'Hard-pressed to find a business book' that suited her needs, this freelancer picked her dream publisher and penned her own.

Book Keeping: Journo's Column Begets Book Deal, Sitcom
A former print journalist describes the agent search, book deal and plate-spinning that let her keep her day job while crafting her memoir.

Book Keeping: From ReganBooks to Big-Time Deal
A first novel thought to be modeled on her former boss Judith Regan ushered this writer into the limelight. From intensive revision to promotional tours, she describes how it happened.

Book Keeping: 'Competitive Offer in the Low Six Figures'
A six-figure contract for his memoir on becoming a hipster dad helped this journalist-turned-author support his family.

Book Keeping: 'Proposal Picked Up In The First Week'
An NYT piece paved this author's way to a six-figure advance: After landing a key article, an agent helped him shape a book proposal from the piece.

Book Keeping: Six-Figure Advance for 'Living the Story'
Invested in his ideas, this journo-turned-author spent savings to cover a high school debate team for articles that turned into his first book.
Excerpt: Cross-X: A Turbulent, Triumphant Season With an Inner-City Debate Squad

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

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Talking Erotica On The Menu: Author Rachel Kramer Bussel Visits To Discuss The Industry, Book Trailers And Ippy Awards - Posted June 24, 2009
Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, host Jason Boog welcomes AgencySpy editor Matt Van Hoven and erotic writer Rachel Kramer Bussel to talk about media headlines and some new book industry news. The trio discussed The Virginia Quarterly Review's story accusing Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson of plagiarism in his... [FishBowlNY]

Talking Erotica On The Menu: Author Rachel Kramer Bussel Visits To Discuss The Industry, Book Trailers And Ippy Awards - Posted June 24, 2009
Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, host Jason Boog welcomes AgencySpy editor Matt Van Hoven and erotic writer Rachel Kramer Bussel to talk about media headlines and some new book industry news. The trio discussed The Virginia Quarterly Review's story accusing Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson of plagiarism in his... [FishBowlNY]

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