by Pamme Boutselis Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Amanda Bennett is an executive editor at Bloomberg News, directing special projects and investigations. She is the author of several books, including “In Memoriam,” “The Quiet Room,” “The Man Who Stayed Behind” and “The Cost of Hope,” a memoir about her family’s…
Christina Hamlett has written 30 books, 146 stage plays, 5 optioned feature films and hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles and interviews. She’s also a professional ghostwriter and script consultant for stage and screen. 1. The agent works for you; you don’t work for the agent. 2. Always send exactly…
A prolific writer of more than 40 novels, Elmore Leonard authored westerns such as “3:10 to Yuma” early in his career before embarking on crime novels. Many of his novels, including “3:10 to Yuma,” “The Captives,” “Get Shorty,” “Jackie Brown” and “Out of Sight,” have been adapted into movies. Leonard…