Joelle Delbourgo Associates, Inc.

BUILD A PLATFORM–AND THEY WILL COME…

“If you build it, they will come…” That proves to be true about a baseball diamond carved out of a cornfield in Iowa in William Kinsella’s novel, SHOELESS JOE, which became FIELD OF DREAMS, the film. And it is equally true for authors about creating and sustaining a platform. The word “platform” began rearing its head […]

RAISING THE BAR

I was speaking with one of my favorite editors this morning, Michael Flamini at St. Martin’s Press about how hard agents work on nonfiction proposals with their authors before ever submitting them to publishers.  “Oh, I can tell,” said Michael.  “I can really see a change over the past decade.  So many proposals are just […]

WHAT DO AGENTS WANT?

It is sometimes said that it is harder to find an agent than it is to find a publisher!  And there’s some truth to it. For would-be authors, though, representation is a must these days. For one thing, publishers count on agents to screen submissions for them.  If they dealt directly with authors on a […]