Comments on: The blog it is a-changing

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:42:52 +0000

I just found your blog today from a link on Nathan Bransford's page. I love your content, but I too find light type on a dark background very hard to read.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:57:27 +0000

Please consider losing the light type on a not-very-dark background. Reading your blog gives me eyestrain. And your pages load slowly enough that I thought my browser had frozen.

Your content is interesting, but trying to read it is painful to the eye.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:04:50 +0000

I appreciate the personal feel and insight a blog can give an aspiring writer to an agent's tastes and requirements. So I'll be sure to check out your blog often. I'm glad to hear you'll be putting more energy into your blog.

By: Malanie Wolfe

Malanie Wolfe — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:17:03 +0000

Great! I love hearing about the publishing community. I get all my publishing news from agent blogs – I don't know where else to find it out here in the boonies!

By: Mary Witzl

Mary Witzl — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:45:57 +0000

I'm with Terisa: I also appreciate the lack of graphics. It's not that I don't like photographs and pictures, but they really do slow things down.

I'd like to know more about what you like too, and why you like it. And I always appreciate book recommendations.

By: Alli

Alli — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:59:24 +0000

I've been very happy with the posts so far, and I look forward to reading more regular posts. I especially like the "what we are looking for" posts. I like Liz's idea of example query letters and examples of voice, etc. Thanks for asking the masses, it is appreciated.

By: Liz de Jager

Liz de Jager — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:01:57 +0000

I am very pleased to see more content! I am also chuffed to see a variety of contributors.

Something I think that will benefit most of us visiting your blog is perhaps reasons why you have chosen xyz to represent - was it the query letter (and perhaps show examples of these that worked), voice, style, characterisation etc.

Also, industry news is also really good as well as a bit of further information on what you guys are currently looking for / seeing too much of, etc.

By: Majo

Majo — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:10:32 +0000

Sorry to hear the problem with the colors won't go away.

Like Tara, I'm a Google junkie and tend to stick to blogger for my fix. Though there are blogs in wordpress that I like, the truth is that though I mean to read them, I tend to forget. Then again, there are probably wordpress fans who don't make it to blogger.

By: M

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:56:19 +0000

The changes sound exciting! Can't wait to read more. As for industry blogs I read, there's GalleyCat, Nathan Bransford's blog, Kristin Nelson's blog Pub Rants, Janet Reid's blog, Jessica Faust's blog, Editorial Ass, Editorial Anonymous, Pimp My Novel, QueryShark, Miss Snark's First Victim, Betsey Lerner's blog, the Upstart Crow Literary Agency blog, and Colleen Lindsay's The Swivet.

Google Reader is my friend.

Blog posts about individual agency (or agent) related stuff are the kind I tend to love most, since there's an abundance of blogs that cover the Big Industry News already. But posts about agents' personal preferences in books, movies, queries, scotch, genres, and monsters? Not enough of those!

In particular, a few standout DGLM posts that come to mind are the series on the DGLM agents' favorite books that ran a few months ago, Jim McCarthy's recent post on voice, and Michael Bourret's response to Cheryl Klein's submission proposal. Any post where you guys discuss your love (or hate) of certain books is also an immediate win.

By: Joelle

Joelle — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:14:40 +0000

I am one of DGLM's clients and I read the blog because of the industry news and the thought provoking posts. I think that's what makes it different than most agency blogs. It's not all about how to get an agent or what writers are doing wrong in queries. I read several blogs that are like that, and they're interesting too, but what I like about this blog is it's business oriented. It keeps me up to date on things I haven't seen everywhere else, while also debating thoughtfully the big and small changes publishing is going through.

I like the variety of people posting too. I wouldn't mind hearing more about books you're all excited about - and they don't have to be DGLM books, so I'm not trying to plug myself and fellow clients or anything with that suggestion. I've found the posts about what you all read in your "spare" time interesting too.

I guess, what I'm really saying, is MORE (as in more frequent, like you're proposing) of the same would be great without any big changes in flavour or style.