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Magical Realism in Books and Film

Magical Realism in Books and Film

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...
Elements of Magical Realism

Elements of Magical Realism

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...

Pitch Sessions: Are There Options?

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...
What Magical Realism ISN’T

What Magical Realism ISN’T

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...
What Is Magical Realism?

What Is Magical Realism?

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...
The Books for the Teens

The Books for the Teens

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...
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