The benefits of having a literary agent are significant: they explain the publishing world to you, shape your book ideas and proposals, negotiate your deals and parse your contracts, and open doors to publishers that you might not be able to access yourself, among other things.
Since self-publishing became a common practice, we’ve begun to see authors routinely referred to as entrepreneurs, and the act of publishing described as an entrepreneurial endeavour. We wholeheartedly agree with these comparisons, but we feel they’re not new.
Page Two principals Jesse Finkelstein and Trena White are the latest guests to speak about self publishing on ProSpeak, an online professional speakers series curated and hosted by Geoffrey X Lane.
Oxford University Press United States senior editor Abby Gross has acquired world English rights, excluding Canada, to Emotional Promiscuity: The Science of Serial Romance, by Dr. Daniel Jones, the world’s leading researcher into why some people tend to fall in love fast, easily, and often.
Copies of the beautiful forthcoming cookbook, Hot Thai Kitchen, by Page Two agency client Palin Chongchitnant, are now available for pre-order through Amazon.com or the book’s publisher Penguin Random House.
Last year Canadian poet and spoken word artist Shane Koyczan aimed to raise $15,000 on Kickstarter to fund his next poetry book. He ended up raising over $90,000. When it works, as it did for him, crowdfunding is a great way to cover the costs of editing, design, website development, and other costs associated with self-publishing.
Kirkus Reviews interviewed Page Two principal Trena White about industry trends and what makes her work unique for its “Word on the Street” series. Read the full Q&A here.
This week marks the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the storm that devastated the historic city of New Orleans and surrounding areas of the Gulf Coast. In the midst of many retrospective books, articles, and opinion pieces that are appearing in news media around the world, an elegant book of essays and photographs is being released, which captures some of the most moving accounts of the storm’s aftermath we’ve seen so far.
Associate publisher Nancy Flight of Greystone Books has acquired world all-language rights to Louise Green’s Limitless, a fitness book for plus-size women that makes it clear you don’t need to be slim to be fit.
We’ve noticed newer authors often don’t quite understand the role of a literary agent. So we asked some of our colleagues at Transatlantic Agency to debunk some of the myths they’ve noticed writers have of literary agents.
We sometimes feel the term “self-publishing” is a misnomer. It implies that you have to do it all yourself, which makes some writers feel overwhelmed. The good news is, you don’t have to go it alone!
Page Two principals Trena White and Jesse Finkelstein are featured in this month’s BC Business Magazine in an article titled “Life After Traditional Book Publishing” by Kerry Gold.
