Sep 8, 2020
Barbara Poelle began her publishing career as a freelance copywriter and editor before joining the Goodman Agency in 2007.
But if you ask her, the best training she had for the industry during her brief stint as a standup comic in Los Angeles.
She’s successfully published thrillers, literary suspense, young adult and upmarket fiction – and she wants YOU to know that publishing agents are not scary gatekeepers, but advocates who WANT to publish your book.
Barbara is also the author of Funny You Should Ask: Mostly Serious Answers to Mostly Serious Questions About the Publishing Industry (Jan, 2020) based on her Writer's Digest column of the same name. Today she shares the answers to some of those biggest questions. Let’s dive in.
And plenty more along the way. Get the resources mentioned in this episode below.