Happy Wednesday Everyone! It's my birthday today! And I'm very happy to celebrate by announcing that all agent spotlights and interviews have been updated for the first time in Literary Rambles' history. I'm SO excited!
I've wanted to update the agent spotlights for years. One of the silver linings of having to stay home due to the pandemic is that I started updating all the agent spotlights and agent spotlight interviews in April and recently finished updating all 175 of them. It's made me feel good to do something to help writers in the safety of my home.
Many agents reviewed and corrected their information. You will be able to tell which agents reviewed theirs in the Profile Details at the bottom of the spotlights and interviews.
Going forward, I'm planning to try to update the spotlights for agents that switch agencies or start their own agency when this happens. I'm going to review and update all of the spotlights on a three-year schedule, which means they will be updated again in 2023.
Three Ways You Can Help Me
I'm hoping that everyone who uses these spotlights will find them more helpful now that they are up-to-date. Here's three ways you can help me:
- Share on your social media sites that these agent spotlights have been updated so other writers know that they will helpful in their agent search and ask your followers to spread the word.
- Be sure to let me know of any changes to the agent spotlights by leaving a comment on their post or emailing me at natalieiaguirre7@gmail.com.
- Support the debut authors that I feature by reading their posts, leaving a comment, and spreading the word about their book or ARC giveaway contest. In these challenging times, debut authors need our help more than ever to spread the word about their book releases.
And you can see all the agent spotlight interviews and author/agent guest posts that are scheduled at the top of the blog. These are great opportunities for you to have direct contact with an agent and get feedback on your query letter. You don't have to want to query the agent or have a submission in the genres that they are looking for to enter the contest.
Here's what's coming up:
Monday, July 20th, I have an interview with Jess Redman and a giveaway of her MG contemporary Quintessence
Wednesday, July 22nd, Angela Ackerman of Writers Helping Writers will be here to celebrate the release of THE OCCUPATION THESAURUS written by Becca Puglisi and her with a big giveaway
Monday, July 27th I have an interview with Olivia Wildenstein and a giveaway of her YA romance Not Another Love Song
Wednesday, August 6th I have an interview with debut author Sasha Laurens and a giveaway of her YA fantasy A Wicked Magic and my IWSG post
Monday, August 10th I have an interview with debut author Chris Negron and a giveaway of his MG contemporary Unmasked
Monday, August 17th I have an interview with debut author KayLynn Flanders and a giveaway of her YA fantasy Shielded
Monday, August 24th I have an agent spotlight interview with Veronica Park and a query critique giveaway
Wednesday, August 6th I have an interview with debut author Sasha Laurens and a giveaway of her YA fantasy A Wicked Magic and my IWSG post
Monday, August 10th I have an interview with debut author Chris Negron and a giveaway of his MG contemporary Unmasked
Monday, August 17th I have an interview with debut author KayLynn Flanders and a giveaway of her YA fantasy Shielded
Monday, August 24th I have an agent spotlight interview with Veronica Park and a query critique giveaway
Hope to see you on Monday!
28 comments:
Happy birthday! :) Hope you have a fantastic day. You have an awesome blog here and provide great resources and opportunities for people.
Happy Birthday!!! And thank you for all your hard work here :)
Happy Birthday, Natalie. You wear it well. Party down!
Truly appreciate your work, and happy birthday!
Happy bday!!!!!!!!
Happy birthday, Natalie! What great work you do! You are very appreciated. Enjoy your day!
Happy Birthday Natalie. Have a wonderful day.
Yvonne.
Happy Birthday!!! And, seriously, thank you for all you do for writers. Your spotlights are amazing.
Happy birthday Natalie! Reading your blogs are such an uplift! My warmest wishes for a wonderful year of uplifting news and activities for you! too! Thanks so much. Marty
Happy Birthday! And congrats on completing the task - that's HUGE!!!
This is incredible! Thank you for your diligence!!!
Thank you for all that you do for writers! Your agent spotlights were an amazing resource for me every time I started querying.
Happy Birthday, Natalie! You do so much for the writing community. I appreciate you. I am happy to help support our debut authors and illustrators, and spread the word.
I'm a day late but I wish you a wonderfully blessed and Happy Birthday. All that you do here at the blog, with your author interviews and agent spotlights, helps and inspires in so many ways.
Thank you!
Happy, happy birthday! Thanks for doing all of this hard work and sharing it with us!
Happy belated birthday, Natalie! Thanks for all you do to help writers! Many blessings to you!!
Happy day-after-your birthday, dear Natalie. I'll share this with our locals.
happy birthday, also, this is amazing news! thank you!!!!
Sounds like a great lineup for the end of July and Aug.
Belated birthday wishes to you at my blog.
Thank you for doing all of this. It is so helpful!
Congratulations times two - for your birthday and for achieving this big task you’ve wanted to complete for a while. Well done and thank you for all you do for the writing community, Natalie!
Happy belated birthday! Nice work getting everything updated! Thanks for maintaining these useful resources!
Happy belated birthday. It is amazing how many things we let slide over time. Congrats on getting those profiles updated. I'm sure it was an undertaking.
Happy Belated Birthday! Hope it was great! Yay for getting all caught up! What a wonderful feeling. Great list of ways we can all help too. :)
~Jess
Happy Belated Birthday to you, Natalie. I hope you had a special day. That's quite an accomplishment to get all those files updated! Congrats.
Happy Birthday!!!
I really enjoyed reading your interview with Jess Redman! I am a new author and just about to enter the agent and publishers search. Reading about all her rejections early on gave me courage to dive in to this very challenging process. I love your blog!
So glad you enjoyed Jess' interview. I hope you'll start reading my agent spotlight interviews and enter the contests for a query critique giveaway.
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