Heather's question about agents had me dredging stuff up with Googja.

The results included a thread back in 1997 where Bill Quick, Sherry
Gottlieb, &c. talked about agents or the lack thereof. (Hey, Dan! There
you are in that thread too.)

<http://google.com/group/misc.writing/browse_frm/thread/0be38d9a4c6ceda4/3ca9597d...>

Toward the end of the thread, drift had taken it to HMOs and, well, you
know.

I tripped over to Sherry's site and found this, "The Seven Most Common
First Novel Problems And How To Avoid Them":

<http://www.wordservices.com/hints.htm>

Happy Mother's Day: Woman pregnant with 18th child

By JILL ZEMAN, Associated Press Writer
Friday, May 9, 2008

(05-09) 14:25 PDT Little Rock, Ark. (AP) --

It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman — she's pregnant with
her 18th child. Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year's Day, and the
latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two
sets of twins.

"We've had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a
busy time for us," she said, laughing.

The Duggars' oldest child, Josh, is 20, and the youngest, Jennifer, is
nine months old.

[...]

<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/09/national/a061405D90....>

<http://www.duggarfamily.com>

<http://www.lindstromliterary.com/Submission_Guidelins.html>

Commercial fiction
Thrillers and mysteries
Women's fiction
Narrative nonfiction
Biography/memoir
Current events

"We do not handle young adult or children's books, or short stories and
poetry."

The site has a detailed explanation of how the Lindstroms work with
clients using, as an example, the marketing campaign for mystery writer
Hailey Lind (a member of Sisters In Crime NorCal -- actual two sisters:
Carolyn Lawes and Julie Goodson-Lawes. Julie lives in Oakland, CA.)

Peter Miller & al.

Query first. E-query preferred.

<http://www.pmalitfilm.com/guidelines.html>
List of clients: <http://www.pmalitfilm.com/bio.html>

"Pan Macmillan Australia publishes books for the general market in the
following categories:

* General Fiction
* Literary Fiction
* Thrillers
* Crime Fiction
* Current Affairs
* True Crime
* Health/Self Help
* Humour
* Memoirs/Biography/Autobiography
* History
* Travel/Adventure

"We are extremely selective in accepting works for publication and are
currently cutting back on our publishing programme, so only works of the
highest level of originality and market appeal can be considered. We do
not accept submissions for short story collections, poetry or children's
picture books."

Hardcopy submissions ONLY.

This issue came up before. Here on MW? Probably. Anyway, I blundered
across an agent's site with a useful set of sample proposals for
fiction and nonfiction.

http://www.adlerbooks.com/promguid.html
(spool down to the bottom for the list of links to the proposals)

The top link here was on Sal's site.
http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

DB

I'm serious. What is that? Write me at royerpfsatyahoodotcom and 'splain.

I got my results back from my physical exam, and all my bloodwork numbers
were in excellent shape (for example, Total cholesterol number: 180
(anything below 200 is good) with bad and good both in proper levels.

--Rich and Healthy Man,

That's my prediction. After that happens I will give you my prediction on
what will happen in Harlem.

But she will manage to pull it off, and lots of people will be pissed
because they backed the wrong candidate.

--Rich Man,

The world population will pass 6,666,666,666 today. Holy shit! Didn't
they just estimate the population at 6 billion a few weeks ago?

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html

Dangerous Bill
(I blame Risotriene.)

Gonna spend the weekend with my dad up in Northern Mitten. Everyone post
well (hi Geno!) and don't let Stan threaten you, he's really not that tough.

But he is a loot now, so watchyaself.

~ ~ ~
PJ