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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So, you've finished your manuscript and are eager to share your work with literary agents. How do you write the perfect pitch letter to a literary agent? 🤔 Here are CBC founder Anna Davis' top tips on how to make your submission pitch letter stand out from the pack:

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How to write the perfect pitch letter to an agent

How do you write the perfect pitch-letter to a literary agent? Follow our 15 top tips on how to make your letter stand out from the pack.

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 18h

I love that wonderful feeling of having written.

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 19h

"Writing for me is a way of understanding what is happening to me, of thinking hard things out. I have never written a book that wasn't born out of a question I needed to answer for myself." --May Sarton

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.” ~~ Henry Green

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"A voice, not merely recognizable, but original, unique, engaging and above all derived from, reflecting, and advancing the meaning of the story itself, is necessary to good and worthwhile literature." --Michael Chabon

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Michelle Witte @michellewitte.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m recovering from a cold right now and will probably go nap in a minute, but will anyone be around tomorrow that we could do an Ask An Agent or some other kind of bookish chat? I’m up for anything. But I would like to do something community-wise to get things started, esp with #dvpit this week.

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I breathe love into the worlds that I create with my words.

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say..." ― Anne Lamott

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Creating stories is where I have decided to make meaning in my life.

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself." --Truman Capote

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Words and ideas are always flowing out of me.

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple idea applies to writing, I hope.” ― Markus Zusak

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I fully immerse myself in telling the story.

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Writing poetry is a passion, ignited by thoughts, fueled by ink. A way to travel through another mind, where souvenirs of tears are tucked away inside your soul. Or leave you with smiles for miles, depending on which route you go.” ― Renee Dixon

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A thing I think about a lot when considering submissions, a revision, a designer’s work, etc. is CHOICES. - Does this person have a vision for what this project is trying to do? - Does that vision also serve the audience & its needs? (If not, we need to make different CHOICES from the outset.) +

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today the blank page and me are collaborators on something amazing!

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"One shortcoming of so many writers today is that they do not take pains; they do not recast their flawed sentences; they do not edit their copy for the sense of it; and they wind up with what I have come to call mangles and dangles." --James J. Kilpatrick

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am strong and talented and creative enough to be a successful writer.

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it -- I might be writing in my dreams." --Danzae Pace

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In all of its ups and downs, writing is a beautiful adventure. #Amwriting #NIV #VerseNovelist

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"We live in such a fast-paced world: poetry helps us slow down, deepen our attention, connect and live more fully." —Arthur Sze, 25th U.S. poet laureate

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This will work out. I have nothing to gain by expecting the worst.

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"There was a wonderful writer -- it might have been Dashiell Hammett -- who said: I don't know what's around the corner. Why should my characters? That's where the surprise comes, and that's what makes it really fun to do." --Allan Folsom

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every rejection is a redirection to somewhere more beautiful than I can even imagine.

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toenails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own.” ~Dylan Thomas

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I write anything that comes to mind to break through writer’s block.

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.” ~ Carl Sandburg

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think of failure as excellence-in-training.

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Poetry is meant to be free. It’s meant to be given. It’s meant to travel, one poem at a time, like pollen from a tree floating through the air to make more trees.” – Ada Limón

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am transforming into an extremely gifted writer.

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"The effort involved in writing a short story is as intense as beginning a novel, where everything must be defined in the first paragraph: structure, tone, style, rhythm, length and sometimes even the personality of a character." --Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Sera Rivers @writeloudly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Join creator Angela Quezada Padron, agent Sera Rivers, editor Alexandra McKenzie and art director Monique Sterling to celebrate the launch of Sisters All the Time. Registrants will be ENTERED FOR A CHANCE TO WIN a copy. Recording available after event. REGISTER HERE: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Joanna Moult @joannamoult.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Looking forward to judging this year’s entries for the Searchlight Awards Novel Prize for YA & Children's Fiction! Get your entries in soon...

Closing soon! Searchlight Novel Prize for YA and Children's Fiction - Deadline: 30th September
Enter on website: searchlightawards.co.uk

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Rebecca Matte @rebeccamatte.com · 14/09/2026

I am officially open to queries! My plan is to stay open until I reach 250, with the goal of opening periodically (every other month?) once I find a balance. #amquerying #amwriting #literaryagent

Instagram graphic with text covering it that says “my QM inbox is open!”

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

After being closed to queries for a year and a half (omg) I’m finally opening back up, writer friends! Wishlist here! www.ericsmithrocks.com/mswl

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Instead of obsessing over new goals and achievements, I build on the work that is already thriving.

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.” - William Wordsworth— from “Preface to Lyrical Ballads.”

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

With everything I write, my characters get stronger and stronger!

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My writing is a stream of feeling that flows from my heart to my reader’s heart. #AmWriting

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” ~~ John Steinbeck

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I can find inspiration at any time.

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“I would define … the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty.” - Edgar Allen Poe

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I can create vivid images and put them down on paper.

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“There’s a reason poets often say, ‘Poetry saved my life,’ for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul’s suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.” #WritingLife #Amwriting #VerseNovel #NIV

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The quality of my writing skills is improving.

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.” ~~ Elie Wiesel

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I honor the quiet moments that turn into verses.

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LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“Poetry … is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.” — Salvatore Quasimodo, from a speech in New York, quoted in The New York Times.

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