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8 WHEN YOUR AGENT ISN’T A GOOD FIT: Two

authors who discovered that their agent wasn’t their

perfect match share their advice on how to break

peacefully—and avoid a bad match in the fi rst place.

BY JERA BROWN

9 PLUS: Worth a Th ousand Words • How To Pitch So

You Don’t Get Ghosted • Poetic Asides • Th e Plotshare

• 100 Years of Writer’s Digest

COLUMNS

18 MEET THE AGENT: Kristin van Ogtrop

Inkwell Management

BY KARA GEBHART UHL

19 INDIELAB: Craft ing a Successful Media Pitch

BY CHRISTOPHER STOLLAR

20 BREAKING IN: Debut Author Spotlight

BY CASSANDRA LIPP

50 FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK: Hitting a Daily Word

Count; When Book Editors Are Late on Deadlines

BY BARBARA POELLE

52 YOUR STORY: Feuillemort, Contest #

62 TAKE T WO: Launching Your Screenwriting Career

From Outside of Hollywood

BY JEANNE VEILLETTE BOWERMAN

64 CONFERENCE SCENE: San Francisco Writing for

Change; 2019 Writers Conference of Dallas

PLUS: Should You Be a Conference Volunteer?

BYDONVAUGHAN

72 POTPOURRIFORTHEPEN

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THE WD INTERVIEW:

ALICE HOFFMAN
Th e author of more than 30 novels discusses the fairy-tale
enchantment of her magical realism, the real-life inspira-
tion behind her latest work, and the urgency to tell impor-
tanthistoricalnarratives before they’re long forgotten.
BYERICKAMCINTYRE

ONTHECOVER

10 PowerPitch:HowToCommandAttentionInThe

Editor’sInbox

22 The AnnualAgentRoundup

46 The InsideScooponFilmandAudiobookRights

32 5 AgentsonHowtoSellLiteraryFiction

38 Step-By-StepGuide:CreatingandPublishing

Anthologies

55 WriteSnappyBeginningsandEndings

42 The WDInterview:AliceHoffman

OCTOBER 2019 | VOLUME 99 | NO. 7

WRITER’S WORKBOOK

B   s &    s

55 THE EDGE OF THE BEGINNING

BY PAULA MUNIER

58 THE FINAL SCENE

BY JORDAN ROSENFELD

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PLUS: 4 online exclusives 5 editor’s letter 6 contributors

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FILM AND AUDIO RIGHTS 101

To protect your work and expand its reach, understand-

ing audiobook, fi lm, and TV rights is a must. A publish-

ing attorney and Grammy-award-winning audiobook

producer tells how.

BY JESSICA KAYE