Like writers, agents are scrambling to keep up with changes in publishing and some have reinvented themselves. Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware warns in her May 17 post that some agent reinventions may not be in writers’ best interests. Meanwhile, Wylie-Merrick Literary Agency side-stepped the conflict-of-interest issue by dropping the agent label to morph into [...]

When I think of women’s fiction as a genre label, I do tend to think of contemporary-set novels – they definitely come to mind first. However, there are many historical novels that are also women’s fiction, stories of self-discovery, in which a woman overcomes adversity and prevails. My debut novel, ILLUMINATIONS, is based on the [...]

In September, Simon & Schuster announced that they united the “editorial and publicity teams of its Pocket Books and Simon Spotlight Entertainment into a new imprint called Gallery Books.” I’m mentioning it because the Publishers Marketplace announcement for Michelle Diener said her two historicals, ILLUMINATIONS and BRILLIANCE, were sold to Micki Nuding at Gallery. The [...]