The elevator pitch is a crucial component of your pitch letter to a literary agent, it is a pithy sentence or two that conveys the book’s hook or central concept. Jonny Geller – CEO of The Curtis Brown Group and one of the UK’s foremost literary agents – shares five possible ways of approaching your elevator pitch.

What goes in a query letter? How do I write a good hook? How do I find comparison titles for my novel?

If you want to be traditionally published, you're likely to need a literary agent to look after your contracts, translation and TV rights, etc. But how do you go about getting one? 1. TARGET. Make a list of agents who represent work similar to yours. Maybe find out who represents your favourite authors by checking

The query trenches are so tough. I remember them vividly. Today I share my actual query letter, and walk you through it paragraph by paragraph. It’s not perf...

Jonny looks at what lies behind some of the most successful books of recent years. He explores the patterns and trends underlying their popularity and describes what a literary agent looks for in a writer. After spending twenty years as a literary agent, he reveals some of the secrets he has learned and argues about the power of the reader in the making of a bestseller.

Should you self-publish or traditionally publish? This infographic will help you determine the best choice for you and your project.

In this week’s blog, Juliet sat down to talk all about book titles - specifically, about how common it is for them to change! Many Mushens Entertainment books originally had different titles - do any of them surprise you?

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Authors define speculative fiction and share their tips for writing it, and agents provide advice for getting your work published.

Why do literary agents take so long to respond to submissions from writers? Is it personal? Are there things writers can do to speed up the process? Find the answers here.

Learn how to write successful queries for any genre of writing by breaking down the query letter and supplying links to example queries that worked.

Finding a literary agent is one thing, but the hard part is gaining representation. In this post, we share how to hook a literary agent to represent writing and get published by looking at the query letter, synopsis, book proposal, and sample pages.

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How do advances work? When do you get royalties? How long until you can quit your job? A pro demystifies the money part of writing