Making Her Own Good Fortune: How Marie Carter's Love of Writing & NYC Brought Her Book Publishing Success

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Making Her Own Good Fortune: How Marie Carter's Love of Writing & NYC Brought Her Book Publishing Success

For my latest author Q&A, I'm delighted to feature Marie Carter, a good friend whose publishing journey I've followed for over fifteen years. Marie's publications include a memoir with a small press, a self-published novel, and most recently, a nonfiction book. Learn about Marie's different publishing experiences and how her "very targeted approach" to querying quickly landed her an agent for her book Mortimer and the Witches, which released in March from Fordham University Press.

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An Occasionally Challenging Journey With a Happy Outcome: How Cliff Burke Landed an Agent, Book Deals & Accolades for His Middle Grade Novels

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An Occasionally Challenging Journey With a Happy Outcome: How Cliff Burke Landed an Agent, Book Deals & Accolades for His Middle Grade Novels

I’m delighted to share my interview with author Cliff Burke. Cliff and I worked together on a partial manuscript critique of his middle grade novel An Occasionally Happy Family back in 2018. Since then he landed an agent, two book deals with Clarion Books (now a division of HarperCollins), and he has several more projects in the pipeline.

What’s inspiring about Cliff’s story is that he “did not have any connections or real understanding of how the agenting process worked,” as he explained. So he took a methodical approach when sending out query letters, and it worked! Learn about Cliff's publishing journey here.

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