April 22nd, 2008 by zen2008
How do I find an agent?
Once you’ve written your book–and polished and edited and reworked it until it’s as good as you think it can possibly be, you’re ready to look for an agent. With publishers and agents being inundated with thousands manuscripts and proposals every month, you need to do everything you can to stand out from the pack. Writing a great book is the easiest way to do this, but first and foremost you’ll need to write a great cover letter that will entice an agent into reading your book.
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April 22nd, 2008 by zen2008
This is both the simplest and most difficult question to answer. The brief–and simple–answer is, write a terrific book. Without that, you’re going to have a heck of a time trying to get published, and it’s the stepping stone where every other question about being published begins.
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April 22nd, 2008 by zen2008
Jason Pinter talks about his first novel, The Mark. Barbara Kingsolver discusses her first book of non-fiction, Animal Vegetable Miracle : A Year of Food Life. And we’re off to the movies with The New Yorker magazine. But, we begin with Maggie Linton and today’s top ten political downloads from audible.com®. [Broadcast Date: August 10, 2007]
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April 22nd, 2008 by zen2008
This was the biggest give away we’ve done for Book Marks and I have to thank Jason Pinter for being so generous. The winners were selected completely at random. I even had my wife do it so there would be no bias by me.
Bookmark winners:
Robert Demond
William Gantt
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April 22nd, 2008 by zen2008
April 22nd, 2008 by zen2008
Jason Pinter was an assistant editor at Warner Books when he began his first thriller, The Mark, writing “everywhere I had time.” He finished the first draft of the book, which he describes as “a straight-up chase novel, an anti-Da Vinci Code,” in six months, spent another three revising, and quickly sold the book to Mira, the division of Harlequin devoted to thrillers and suspense novels.
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April 21st, 2008 by zen2008
Sweat coated Athena’s upper lip. She licked it, shuddered at the sensation, and knew the night would be a memorable one. The blue Missoni dress clung to her body, the fabric matted on her curves like tissue paper. The dress had been air-mailed by Ottavio Missoni himself, specifically for Athena to wear tonight…..
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April 21st, 2008 by zen2008
In the publishing world, Jason Pinter has sat on both sides of the desk. As an editor, first with Warner and Crown’s Three Rivers Press, then at St. Martin’s, Pinter saw his share of the good, the bad, and the ugly as far as submissions were concerned. Pinter, however, wanted to write fiction–gritty, fast-paced urban novels. He sold the first of his thrillers in a three-book deal with MIRA, an imprint for Harlequin/Mills & Boon, a publisher best known for their success in the romance genre and looking to increase the male quotient of their author list.
MIRA’s faith in Pinter paid off. His debut thriller, THE MARK, hit a bullseye for MIRA and climbed the bestseller lists. His followup novel, THE GUILTY (released Feb. 26), features the same protagonist from THE MARK, Henry Parker, a Gen-Y reporter caught in a web of deceit and violence.
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April 16th, 2008 by zen2008
Contact Jason
jason@jasonpinter.com
Literary representation
Joe Veltre, Artists Literary Group
Publicity Inquiries
Susan Schwartzman
Michelle Renaud
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