The Seymour Agency

Before I sent out my agent queries, I braced myself for the tidal wave of expected rejections. I’ve worked in the entertainment industry for...

It was just another pandemic day. I planned to be busy with marketing and PR-related planning and doing after my morning cardio walk, stretc...

Kyan Howland - Repped by Joyce Sweeney Curiouser and Curiouser Since being a child, I’ve felt how stories permeate the atmosphere. Being a s...

Agent Lynnette Novak emailed me about a week after I queried her. In that email, she asked if she could set up a phone call. Of course, I sa...

My family and I had moved back to the States in 2002 and I wanted to somehow earn a living by working from home. I was big into quilting at ...

My call came as a few emails at first. Having had agents before, both good and bad, I think I went into it with my eyes wide open. But even ...

Around the age of nine, I remember telling my parents I wanted to be an author, but my interests later led me to become a Certified Athletic...

So for me, the call was the icing on the cake because the response to my query was what truly got me.  The first line that Joyce sent me was...

After Joyce Sweeney and I met at a Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) conference in Miami, she became my conten...

Since I'd found Lynnette on Twitter, I was already following her, when I saw her tweet about a thriller manuscript she was really enjoyi...

I knew I wanted an agent who was more than business. It had to be personal. Because writing is personal. That’s why I totally stalked Julie ...

I knew from the time I was eight years old that I would be a writer. I was always writing little stories and making little books. I was that...

I first happened to cross paths with Lynnette Novak on Twitter. I sent her my manuscript seeing her pinned tweet. In a couple of days Lynnet...

My call story is a little unique and demonstrates the Lord's perfect timing. I had been to Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Confer...

Once I noticed an agent’s message in my email, I pre-judged it. My first reaction assumed the worst. Ok, who can I query next? To my surpri...

I met Joyce Sweeney at Florida SCBWI meetings and through a writing course of hers I'd taken. In 2019, she edited THE MAGNIFICENT ROLLI...