Latest posts from Chip MacGregor
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To Work or Not To Work With a Particular Agent
Thoughts on agents as the publishing industry continues to transform:
Someone wrote to say, “I’ve been offered a contract on my novel. Since I don’t have an agent, should I seek one at this point? And if the agent accepts, …
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Historical Fiction & The Facts – Chats with Chip
Someone wrote to ask, “What is the author’s responsibility to the facts when writing a historical novel?” She noted she was writing about historical events, but wanted to know if she could change them. In a related note, someone else …
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Marketing Your First Novel – Chats with Chip
We’re bringing back some of Chip’s blog posts for both your reading pleasure and to bring some insight for authors in a constantly evolving industry. Enjoy! Feel free to comment below.
Marketing Your First Novel
I received a fascinating email …
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We’re Proud to Announce ‘MacGregor & Luedeke’
We have a new logo and a new partnership!
For the past ten years, we (Chip & Amanda) have worked as colleagues, serving authors and doing our part to make books happen. We are thrilled for this next chapter.
As …
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Ask the Agent: Why is everyone so upset?
This month I’m back to trying to get to all the questions people say they’d like to ask an agent, if they could just sit down with him or her for a few minutes and talk privately. In light of …
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Where Did All the Christian Fiction Buyers Go? (A Guest Blog)
Steve Oates is the VP of Marketing for Bethany House Publishers. Recently, after I had blogged about the significant changes we’ve seen in Christian fiction, he contacted me with some thoughts. I invited him to send me a blog post …
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Ask the Agent: Indie publishing, ebooks, movie rights, et al.
So if you could sit down at Starbucks with a literary agent, and ask him any question you wanted, what would you ask? I’m taking a few months to let writers ask those questions they’ve always wanted to talk over …
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Ask the Agent: Platforms, Publications, and Mother’s Day
As I write this, it’s Mother’s Day, and I happen to have been born on Mother’s Day oh those many decades ago. I’m home, my mom is long gone, and I realized writers have been sending in a LOT of …
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Ask the the Agent: The questions you’ve always wanted to ask
All last month I was inviting writers to send in their questions — If you could sit down and be face-to-face with a literary agent, what would you ask? I’d like to continue down that path for another month. Here …
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If you could ask any question of a literary agent…
I’ve been taking the month of April and asking readers to send in their specific questions of literary agent. So if you could have lunch with an agent, sit down face to face and talk, what would you ask? Here …
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If you could sit down and have a cup of coffee with an agent…
Okay, so I’ve been asking people to send in questions — What is it you’ve always wanted to talk with a literary agent about? If you could sit down over coffee and just have a conversation, what would you ask?…
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Ask the Agent: What have you always wanted to ask?
I’m spending the month answering questions authors say they would ask if they could sit down and have a conversation with me. I’ll be doing this the entire month of April, and I’m trying to get to all the questions …
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If you could sit down and have a conversation with an agent…
Okay, so if you could sit down to a meal with a literary agent, what would you ask him (or her)? I’m taking this month to let people send in questions of any sort — whatever it is they want …
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Questions you’d ask an agent…
So this month we’re going to let you ask whatever you’ve always wanted to ask a literary agent. You send me the questions (or send them to me on Facebook, or stick them in the “comments” section), and I’ll try …
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My Long Journey Home (or “Do Authors Really Need an Agent?”)
A guest blog by novelist Elizabeth Musser
I’m home now. After almost twenty-five years on this writing journey, I’ve finally found my way home.
I certainly don’t mean I’ve found my permanent publishing house. I’ve had four different American publishers …
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Chip does a video course!
Over the years I’ve spoken at more than 200 writing conferences, usually talking about the publishing industry, proposals, agents, and the general notion of working as a writer in this crazy business. Recently the folks at the Profitable Authors Institute …
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Full Circle: The story behind the Wine Press Publishing debacle
Longtime readers of this blog will recall that I wrote about the morons at WinePress Publishing when they threatened me with a lawsuit (you can read that story here), when it turned out they were a cult posing as …
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Three Things to Consider Before Talking with an Agent…
Erin Buterbaugh is filling in for Chip today and has some great thoughts to share…
A lot of new authors I get emails from give the impression that the query/agent search is the culmination of their writing journey– they’ve written … -
Ask the Agent: Should I work with a speaker’s bureau?
I’ve recently had a couple people write to ask me about speaker bureaus — How do they work? What do they make? Are they worth it?
Over the last twenty years, I’ve worked with numerous speaker bureaus to try and …
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Ask the Agent: Does a novel have to be historically accurate?
Someone wrote to ask, “What is the author’s responsibility to the facts when writing a historical novel?” She noted she was writing about historical events, but wanted to know if she could change them. In a related note, someone else …