tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post379621825412919405..comments2023-11-02T06:57:11.400-04:00Comments on BookEnds Literary Agency: Only the RighteousBookEnds, A Literary Agencyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287278822065839469noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-65150482507776125872011-08-31T11:19:53.632-04:002011-08-31T11:19:53.632-04:00Okay, that was hilarious and I like how the author...Okay, that was hilarious and I like how the author claims it was not an inquiry on their part. Riiiight....MissFifihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09948141818594611257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-65538366357286702212011-08-29T15:26:26.547-04:002011-08-29T15:26:26.547-04:00Crud. You mean bursting into your office wearing ...Crud. You mean bursting into your office wearing my MU sweatshirt and shouting "Go Warriors!" won't get me a contract? Back to the drawing board.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-62062903766882516032011-08-29T09:46:55.904-04:002011-08-29T09:46:55.904-04:00The author was right. You cannot instill decency i...The author was right. You cannot instill decency into people.Lanettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09987748870291077638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-39381926455023891052011-08-26T20:36:29.269-04:002011-08-26T20:36:29.269-04:00I'm a Marquette grad, and I'm embarrassed ...I'm a Marquette grad, and I'm embarrassed by how one of my fellow authors tried to use our alma mater.<br /><br />I wonder if she has any idea how bad she made us Golden Eagles (or Warriors, as we were back in my day) look.<br /><br />Carry on, Jessica! Someone's got to make Marquette look good. :)A.J. Cattapanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12658717054736277339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-78848144292347636862011-08-26T17:07:18.432-04:002011-08-26T17:07:18.432-04:00What's really baffling is that if she had resp...What's really baffling is that if she had responded with, "Sorry for my oversight! I'll submit my query shortly through your firm's process," you might have given that query a little more attention just because you'd remember her name. But now she's completely burned a bridge by acting like an entitled ass.Julie Nilsonhttp://julienilson.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-67712842615700584072011-08-26T07:29:46.359-04:002011-08-26T07:29:46.359-04:00Very good. Thanks for post.Very good. Thanks for post.dissertationhttp://custom-writing.co.uk/dissertationnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-79439222875526772242011-08-25T23:51:44.516-04:002011-08-25T23:51:44.516-04:00"Sense of Entitlement". That's the ..."Sense of Entitlement". That's the phrase I was searching for.Virginia Llorcahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08354795459855491623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-16492799143799418142011-08-25T23:47:37.558-04:002011-08-25T23:47:37.558-04:00My brother is a Marquette grad and I won't say...My brother is a Marquette grad and I won't say what that 'speaks of him'. I went to Loyola, CGO. As did my daughter. Those darn Jevvies. <br /><br />I don't understand Linked-in. They send me updates from professionals that have no "link" to me.Virginia Llorcahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08354795459855491623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-78842448086686410462011-08-25T20:58:33.086-04:002011-08-25T20:58:33.086-04:00You shoulda gone to one of them there online colla...You shoulda gone to one of them there online collages like I did. You can get a writin dee-gree real fast like over a long week-end.<br />You don't get no alumunuses botherin ya for stuff if ya did. <br /><br />I think that there Redleg guy is purty cool.<br />Hey rubytheigh, you single?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-47140493690136098132011-08-25T19:53:49.595-04:002011-08-25T19:53:49.595-04:00I don't get the point behind LinkedIn either, ...I don't get the point behind LinkedIn either, at least not for writers. I get invitations all the time and just ignore them. Maybe I'm missing something? I just always thought it was more a business network for people in corporate.ryan fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13361694356025572544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-88242783729124812052011-08-25T19:24:07.999-04:002011-08-25T19:24:07.999-04:00I'll just never understand why writers think t...I'll just never understand why writers think they don't need to follow the rules!<br /><br />Folks! Agents deserve your respect! Their time is just as valuable as yours! Don't burn your bridges!<br /><br />Please, please listen - your success is at stake.Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07650941719055538697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-70990099781984085922011-08-25T19:04:08.121-04:002011-08-25T19:04:08.121-04:00Go, Redleg! Josin L. McQuein's suggestion was...Go, Redleg! Josin L. McQuein's suggestion was spot-on as always as well.<br /><br />Also, I am disappointed to learn that pointing out some arbitrary similarity or shared experience will not instantly endear me to an agent. I was hoping one would pledge their love to my undying work that way, even while realizing I was in no way querying them. Oh, woe.Kristin Laughtinhttp://kristinlaughtin.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-18860450785921737192011-08-25T17:40:32.760-04:002011-08-25T17:40:32.760-04:00Whaaaaa?
I've heard of (and experienced) some...Whaaaaa?<br /><br />I've heard of (and experienced) some serious chipping in line and the every popular, "but I've always done it that way", but this really takes the cake.<br /><br />To think that somehow enforcing your own agency's legitimate guidelines is "mean and rude" would in most cases, boggle the imagination.<br /><br />Unfortunately, this is a common occurance working in the guv'ment.G. B. Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09783331838434598963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-22509489058876110942011-08-25T17:27:13.294-04:002011-08-25T17:27:13.294-04:00Wow. This is the first time I ever gave myself a c...Wow. This is the first time I ever gave myself a concussion from a facepalm.Nikkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095093033222553591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-88422737438925891232011-08-25T16:58:12.601-04:002011-08-25T16:58:12.601-04:00I think you are too kind. Most agents would simply...I think you are too kind. Most agents would simply ignore unwanted e-mail. End of communication. Responding to points this lady raised is in any event bad strategy because it feeds the troll as it were. Sometimes the best response is none at all.<br /><br />Of course some agents report that these characters come to the office with nostrils blazing. Maes me wish I were an agent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-3283164494967879042011-08-25T16:37:37.076-04:002011-08-25T16:37:37.076-04:00But Jessica, rules are for everybody else, not for...But Jessica, rules are for everybody else, not for me. Here, let me throw my Marquette weight around. I used to pass by Marquette every day on my way into the city, therefore, you should, and this is not a query by the way, go and find my old query letter, and reconsider publishing me. Do you know Milwaukee has more microbreweries than anywhere else in the country? And you have the audacity to defame such a beer drinking city that we both lived in, probably at separate times, by not accepting this not query non proposal for probably a non book. :-) <br />The reality is, schools don't have the slightest clue how to prepare students for the literary world. For example, and for your amusement, my senior year of college, which was all of two years ago, I took a class in fiction writing. Part of the class was to write a query letter for the publishing house the wished to represent us.<br />Now, this wasn't a professor of a by gone era that should be retired, he's a fresh young guy who just got the highest doctoral degree for English or Literary something or other you can have. I remember him saying that he didn't have anything published yet and now I know why. He's sending his query letters to the wrong place.<br />Of course, because of blogs like yours, I've figured out how things work on my own.<br />I said all that to say that I think people don't know the norms and the socially acceptable behaviors and processes of the literary world. They were taught certain things in college on how things are done. I've found out recently, that a lot of colleges don't know how things are done. <br />Luckily, another English prof turned me on to writers digest and Sol Stein on Writing. From writers digest, I've found blogs like yours and Nathan Bransford and a whole lot of other resources to teach myself about the business.<br />Truth is, us newbies to the literary world don't know that we don't know what we don't know because we don't know we need to know it. College is supposed to have prepared us for everything. :-)inklings Anonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17777349959527402390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-51333447677187999702011-08-25T15:59:57.268-04:002011-08-25T15:59:57.268-04:00Someone was obviously used to getting her own way,...Someone was obviously used to getting her own way, huh?Donna Shieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04607270459657152401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-69878682390135187922011-08-25T15:36:02.079-04:002011-08-25T15:36:02.079-04:00Lack of belief in Marquette Ideals? I thought Mar...Lack of belief in Marquette Ideals? I thought Marquette ideals involved partying down on Wells Street, maybe hitting Real Chili, although I note that the best sports bar in the world no longer appears to be on campus. (I would remind you of what that would be, but it seems I have forgotten. It's been a while. And I was always a little fuzzy when I was there anyway.) I had never actually noticed that Marquette engendered a sense of entitlement in its graduates (that would have been the TKEs over at UWM).The Foodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10399127326894886664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-84614455404833349672011-08-25T14:16:38.177-04:002011-08-25T14:16:38.177-04:00Hi Jessica,
You could try sending a copy of this b...Hi Jessica,<br />You could try sending a copy of this blog post and comments to her. <br />If she's as clever as she thinks she is, she'll get the message. If not, her University place was obviously wasted on her.Valentina Hepburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671574149855533471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-36411087079505174092011-08-25T14:03:27.077-04:002011-08-25T14:03:27.077-04:00Amazing doesn't begin to express it.Amazing doesn't begin to express it.Elizabeth Varadan, Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01708206753256682635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-36267744841419684962011-08-25T12:54:43.939-04:002011-08-25T12:54:43.939-04:00Well we all knew that.
That's why we follow t...Well we all knew that.<br /><br />That's why we follow this blog. Because all of us are also money grubbing, self-absorbed, indecent humans. >:\Nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04437698825217730840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-5332984792165479572011-08-25T12:52:08.838-04:002011-08-25T12:52:08.838-04:00There will always be those who believe they are pr...There will always be those who believe they are princesses. Can you imagine what things would be like if you'd taken her as a client? Yeesh! The fact that you handled it so well speaks highly of you.<br />You deserve a Werther's.Tam Linseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14455888010872538096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-85022008610530277902011-08-25T12:28:10.691-04:002011-08-25T12:28:10.691-04:00Hah! Oh, Jessica...
You had me at sh**storm. :)Hah! Oh, Jessica...<br />You had me at sh**storm. :)Carrie Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01540590799406170410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-86395857436088105582011-08-25T12:12:13.283-04:002011-08-25T12:12:13.283-04:00We have had that problem with people parking in fr...We have had that problem with people parking in front of our boat launch. It's the weirdest thing, there is even a big sign that says DO NOT BLOCK BOAT LAUNCH. Yet people just pull up and park right in front of it.<br /><br />Rules just don't seem to apply to some people.SBJoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10457239074744509487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23051453.post-29403356346879838852011-08-25T11:37:02.657-04:002011-08-25T11:37:02.657-04:00Wow. I wish I could say I couldn't believe so...Wow. I wish I could say I couldn't believe someone would do something like that, but it's not really surprising. Sorry you had to deal with such poor behavior.B.E. Sandersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04336115135400388268noreply@blogger.com