Notes from the Armchair #7
By Laura Zats Literary agents have a lot of mottos. Fight for your author, no matter what. Beer makes everything better. But the most prevalent, and…
Notes from the Armchair #6
By Laura Zats Twenty years ago, any author who wrote for teens or middle grade wouldn’t have been considered “serious” writers. Even now, there’s still an…
Notes from the Armchair #5
By Laura Zats Congratulations, everyone! You made it! You have survived NaNoWriMo 2013. And you have hung around with us in the meantime, waiting to see…
Notes from the Armchair #4
By Laura Zats Two weekends ago, I fled the Twin Cities for a five-day reprieve in the cornfields of Iowa. I was visiting my alma…
Notes from the Armchair #3
By Laura Zats Some rejections are easy. When a writer sends us a half-cocked query with a ton of typos that doesn’t make sense? Turned…
Notes from the Armchair #2
By Laura Zats I have a confession to make… When I started working with Red Sofa Literary, just a few short months ago, I was terrified…
Notes from the Armchair #1
By Laura Zats When thinking about the Red Sofa Chats this blog posts, I’m always reminded of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s series of Fireside Chats during the…
