Much as I would love to be at Weekend with Your Novel in Madison today, I have somewhere else to be this morning. I mention it not just because I feel a little whiny, but also because this post is the sort of thing I would expect to hear there — or at the spring Writers Institute.

Jennifer Represents…: An EPIC POST about the Submission Process, from an Agent’s POV.

http://literaticat.blogspot.com/2014/11/an-epic-post-about-submission-process.html?m=1

In case you didn’t hear yesterday, “Amazon and Hachette Resolve Dispute,” says NYTimes.com

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/technology/amazon-hachette-ebook-dispute.html?referrer=

Sometimes ideas just pop up and I start a project without giving much thought to its genre. I don’t read just one genre, so I never thought I would only have to write one genre.
But there’s marketing. And library shelving.
So here’s a discussion of “the genre debate.”

A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate – The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/books/joshua-rothman/better-way-think-genre-debate

Isabel Costello made the decision to find an agent. She talks about the experience in her blog today.

My First Year as an Agented Writer | Isabel Costello

http://isabelcostelloliterarysofa.com/2014/11/05/my-first-year-as-an-agented-writer/