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How to Get Published: A Literary Agent Tells All

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You’ve got a book idea—but how do you go from blank page to published author? Literary agent and author Kate McKean of the Agents & Books substack joins us to demystify the publishing process from query letters to advances, platforms, rejection, and all the weird feelings in between. This is the real talk every aspiring writer needs.

  • What does a literary agent really do—and how do you find one?
  • How do you write a query letter that actually gets noticed?
  • Do you really need a social media platform to get a book deal?
  • What happens after an agent agrees to represent your book—how does it actually get sold?
  • How do you survive the emotional chaos of publishing, from rejection to imposter syndrome?

Get Kate's book WRITE THROUGH IT here.

Subscribe to Kate's newsletter Agents and Books here.

Join our newsletter community here.

Pre-order EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU here.

Visit our lovely sponsors here.

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You’ve got a book idea—but how do you go from blank page to published author? Literary agent and author Kate McKean of the Agents & Books substack joins us to demystify the publishing process from query letters to advances, platforms, rejection, and all the weird feelings in between. This is the real talk every aspiring writer needs.

  • What does a literary agent really do—and how do you find one?
  • How do you write a query letter that actually gets noticed?
  • Do you really need a social media platform to get a book deal?
  • What happens after an agent agrees to represent your book—how does it actually get sold?
  • How do you survive the emotional chaos of publishing, from rejection to imposter syndrome?

Get Kate's book WRITE THROUGH IT here.

Subscribe to Kate's newsletter Agents and Books here.

Join our newsletter community here.

Pre-order EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU here.

Visit our lovely sponsors here.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  continue reading

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