by Michelle | Apr 4, 2016 | agenty stuff, craft, I like, MSWL, querying, reading, recent, storytelling, writing
Image above created by Stefano Vitale for Broadway musical production of Like Water for Chocolate. This is the fifth in a five-part series on Magical Realism. If you haven’t read the previous posts, I recommend starting with Part 1: What Is Magical Realism? “When you...
by Michelle | Sep 29, 2015 | agenty stuff, craft, I like, MSWL, querying, recent, storytelling, writing
This is the third in a five-part series on Magical Realism. If you haven’t read the first two, I recommend starting with Part 1: What Is Magical Realism? “I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn’t an unformed and gelatinous...
by Michelle | Sep 1, 2015 | agenty stuff, authors, conferences, I like, nitty gritty, querying, recent
Last week on Twitter, some agents got to talking about pitch sessions at writing conferences. It was a good discussion with responses that pretty much echoed the others: While we love attending conferences and meeting writers, pitch sessions themselves are ineffective...
by Michelle | Aug 4, 2015 | agenty stuff, not for me, querying, reading, recent, storytelling, writing
This is second in a five-part series on Magical Realism. If you haven’t read Part 1: What Is Magical Realism?, I’d recommend starting there. “Eddie had come to understand that what a man saw and what actually existed in the natural world often were...
by Michelle | Jul 31, 2015 | agenty stuff, authors, craft, I like, MSWL, querying, reading, recent, storytelling, writing
“It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise . . . to such an extreme that no-one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay. It was an intricate stew of truths and mirages that convulsed the ghost of José Arcadio Buendía with...
by Michelle | Jul 28, 2015 | agenty stuff, I like, MSWL, querying, recent, writing, YA
Writers seem to really like the visual post I did recently on the types of picture books and illustrations I’d like to see in my inbox, so I figure, why not do some more for other genres/age groups I rep. This one will be slightly different since I’m not...
