Jeff Rivera
Jeff Rivera is the the founder of GumboWriters.com, a firm based in New York City. He is a highly-respected book publishing professional who writes regularly for GalleyCat, Mediabistro and Huffington Postand his work has been featured or mentioned in the Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, New York Observer, Fast Company, TMZ, NPR, Billboard Magazine and many other publications. Rivera interviews high profile power players such as Janet Evanovich, Jeff Kinney, Seth Godin, Philippa Gregory and James Patterson.
He is one of the most sought-after book publishing industry young professionals in the business, often invited as a panelist on writers conferences and a published novelist (Grand Central Publishing).
Rivera has assisted over 100 aspiring writers in taking that first step of crafting the right query letter and has a 100% track record of getting top agents to request their manuscript. Agencies such as William Morris Endeavor, ICM, UTA, and Writers House are just a few of the literary agencies who have requested his clients' work. Many of Rivera's clients have gone on to sign with top literary agencies and even secure book deals.
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He is one of the most sought-after book publishing industry young professionals in the business, often invited as a panelist on writers conferences and a published novelist (Grand Central Publishing).
Rivera has assisted over 100 aspiring writers in taking that first step of crafting the right query letter and has a 100% track record of getting top agents to request their manuscript. Agencies such as William Morris Endeavor, ICM, UTA, and Writers House are just a few of the literary agencies who have requested his clients' work. Many of Rivera's clients have gone on to sign with top literary agencies and even secure book deals.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: A Query Letter that Worked #62How to write a Query Letter
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: A Query Letter that Worked #1How to write an query letter to land an agent.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: The Joe Konrath Effect: Publish or Self-PublishAuthors like Joe Konrath have gotten people quite exited about self-publishing an e-book, but some authors still aren't sold on the idea. Now, I come from a world of both.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: Should You Choose an Agent or a Manager?Agents and managers are totally different things. When it comes to Hollywood, an agent will represent a roster of perhaps hundreds of clients, while a manager, in theory, may only represent a handful of people.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: How to Write Your Query Letter: Your Life StoryNever say that you want to tell your life story in a query letter. That's something that every book professional hears at least ten times a day, and an agent probably hears it even more than that.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: How to Land an Agent: Become a JournalistBeing a journalist is a great way to land an agent for a number of reasons. Journalism shows that you have a professional standard of writing, and also shows that you know how to meet deadlines.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: How to Make Time for Your Writing when You're Busy as it IsIt seems like everyone would love to be a writer, whether you are a journalist, a parent, a corporate executive, lawyer or politician.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: Personalize Your Query LettersPersonalizing your query letter is a great little trick to use in landing an agent for your work.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: So You Think There's Nothing Else Out There like Your Book? Big Mistake!So, you think your book is like nothing else out there? Never, ever, mention in your query letter that your book is like nothing else out there. Why?
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: Is My Platform Big Enough to Land an Agent?You might be surprised how big your author's platform might be already. There are many different types of platforms, but they all basically mean that you have a built-in audience or fan base of people who are poised and ready to your book as soon as it comes out.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: Is This Literate Agent Legitimate?It's a scary world out there for new writers because there are a lot of people ready to take advantage of you.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: If You've Been Self-Published, Mention it in Your Query LetterIf you have been self-published in the past, you should definitely mention it in your query letter, but there are ways to do it and reasons to not do it that are very important to note.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: If You Don't Have the Talent to Write, Get a Co-Writer!One of the excuses that people like to use when they say they want to write but can't is that they just don't have the talent.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: "First Get a Platform"Your voice must be heard. There is no greater way to do this than to write a book.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: Find Your Writing Voice or You Won't Land an AgentOne of the biggest mistakes that authors make in not landing an agent comes in a lack of a writing voice.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: How NOT to Write a Query Letter: Comparing Your Book to a Mega BestsellerOne of the biggest mistakes I see writer do is calling their book the next Harry Potter. Never, ever, compare your book to a huge top seller.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: Don't Act like a Know-It-All WriterA common mistake that authors make is trying to come across like they know everything about the book business and publishing world.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: Choosing Between AgentsIf you're lucky enough to have a choice between two agents, or maybe more, there are a number of factors you can think about in deciding which agent is best for you.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: How to Land a Celebrity Book Deal: Part ThreeYou just built your repertoire of celebrities, young and smaller celebrities, and have also added a publicist or two to your contacts. Now what?
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: How to Land a Celebrity Book Deal: Part OneIt seems like, nowadays, nothing sells faster than celebrity books. Movie stars, performers, and even reality TV stars, are getting book deals left and right.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: How Real Estate Developers Can Land a Book DealYou've seen them on television and infomercials, with their high-pitched and hyper pitchmen; former real estate developers making more money than God selling their packages and books.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: An Agent Just Requested My Manuscript! Now What?: Part 1Don't panic! Celebrate! Some people wait years to get an agent to actually request to read their materials, whether it be a manuscript or a book proposal.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: How to Land an Agent with Your Multicultural NovelDr. Martin Luther King's dream comes alive better at no other place in the book publishing industry than at a literary agency.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: How to Land a Book Deal with Your Life StoryHave you lived a rather interesting life? Maybe an emotional journey no one would believe? Would your life story make a great movie? Then, listen up!
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: How to Land an Agent with Your Latino BookWith over 40 million Latinos in this country, it's no wonder that literary agents are hot on the genre, and that doesn't mean it has to be an ethnic-central novel, either.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: Investors: How to Land a Literary AgentThe topic of investing is hotter than ever. With the U.S. economy going through so many changes, readers are looking for leaders in the industry to give them a fresh perspective and an insiders view on what they can do to change their financial situation.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: Why You Still Don't Have an AgentDo you want to know one of the top reasons why writers don't land agents? They're desperate. Agents can smell that desperation like a dead rat and they turn away as soon as they can.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: How Attorneys Can Land a Literary AgentNo one sings more credibility to a literary agent than professionals such as attorneys. Your credibility is absolutely imperative when trying to land a publishing deal, and you establish that credibility through factors such as educational background, wins and white papers.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: What I Learned from Philippa GregoryPhilippa Gregory is one of the most successful historical novelists on the planet. When talking to her, I found her background fascinating, and equally as interesting was her take on why she became so successful.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: When to Follow Up on a Query LetterThere are a lot of factors that go into making the decision of when to follow up on a query letter. All agents are different; some of them will respond right away, others may take up to a week or more to respond.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: Why You Still Don't Have an AgentIf there's one thing that bothers me it's when you see a very talented writer ruin their chances of ever getting an agent. And it's not because they're not talented enough, or not nice enough or hard-working enough. It's often because on some level, they're self-sabotaging their own success.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: You Say "Dear Agent"First impressions are so important to a literary agent, especially when they receive hundreds of query letters a day. They're on auto-pilot and can click delete faster than you can blink an eye.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: You Don't Personalize Your Query LetterHave you ever walked down a street and had someone shove a flier at you or a perfume girl at Macy's spray some God-awful cologne in your face as you're just trying to walk by?
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: It's Too LongMost aspiring writers have shot their chances of ever being represented by a literary agent before the agent has even had a chance to read their query letter.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: You Send CC it to Agents at the Same TimeI wanted to vomit when I saw this. It was just so sad to see a perfectly skilled writer ruin their chances of landing an agent. They actually CC'd the same query letter to a bunch of agents all at the same time.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: You Don't Grab Them in the First SentenceAgents are so busy nowadays they won't even give a query letter an entire paragraph to grab them.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: You Haven't Given Them a Reason to Trust YouHave you ever been on the phone with a friend of yours and your friend can't hear you or they don't recognize your voice? They can be rude, down right mean, "Who?? Who is this?!" they demand.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: You Ain't Got No Platform Honey!Agents are in the business of selling books. That's what they do. They're not our best friends, they're not our therapists, and they're not our life coaches.
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: You Haven't Begun with a Bang!"How come Daddy? How come?" That's probably a three-year-old's favorite question and it forces the parent in the crutch of their busy day to stop what they're doing and think for a second. "Hmmm ... Yeah, why is that dogs bark and cats meow?"
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How to Land a Literary Agent in 7 Days: You Haven't Grabbed Them EmotionallyYou Haven't Grabbed Them Emotionally