I can finally make this news public:
I'm leaving the great people at FinePrint Literary Management; my last official day as an agent will be this Friday, August 6th. I'll be moving back into a publishing position, and on Monday I'll be starting a new job at Penguin, working in an online capacity. (Details about the new position when I'm permitted to share.)
I'm sure that many of you will have questions. Please feel free to leave them in the comments field. I'm preparing a much longer post about this for later in the week, and I'll try to answer as many questions as I can in that post.
Cheers!
85 comments:
I wish you much luck!
Congratulations on your new position. I can't wait to hear the details of your job at Penguin. (Will they let you wear Dr. Seuss sneakers, though?)
Good luck and thanks for everything you've done!
Congratulations on your new position! Swim happily in your new duds.
Congrats.
Awesome! Congratulations!!!
A great company. And they are lucky to have you. Best of luck, Colleen.
Wow, exciting changes. Congratulations and good luck!
Congratulations on your new position, I hope you and the flightless bird will be very happy for a long long time. =]
Congratulations! Looking forward to hearing more about it!
Congratulations! I know you'll do a brilliant job at Penguin. China Mieville, Terry Brooks, and so many amazing authors will forever sing your praises for carrying their torches into the world and across the infosphere. And I will forever sing them too, my lovely friend. Thank you for everything you've taught me, and for all your support and encouragement. Best of luck, and here's to new beginnings. Excelsior! Rob
Congrats and all the best. Love those penguins, just hope the feline overlords approve :)
Congrats and best of luck in your new venture!
Congratulations, Colleen. All the best. Watch out for that bird though, penguins are a suspicious lot.
Best of luck at your new job. I'm excited for you!
Can't wait to hear more.
Wow! Congratulations, and thank you so much for sharing your knowledge base. It's been a huge help!
Sounds both sad and exciting! I wish you well! And I hope you're still able to tweet, you always offer such great insight and information.
Big congrats, that's very awesome. :)
Congratulations on your new position! Penguins tweet, right?
Best of luck to you along your journey! And, I'm a Fleetwood Mac freak, so I've got a major soft spot for penguins. ;-)
Wow! Good luck! How exciting.
Congratulations!!! I hope you plan to continue blogging.
What happy news for you! Working at Penguin sounds like a great move...
Congrats and good luck. :)
Good luck with the new job, Coleen!
Congrats, Colleen! Considering all the good stuff you do -- I'm thinking of Backspace and #askagent as just two examples -- I'm sure Penguin is going benefit hugely.
Huzzah! A reliable source of cat-food-money, earned by doing something you do so well!
WTG, congrats, and all the best! Please don't forget us tweeps out here in virtual land.
Terri
Very cool!! Tell Mr. Colgan I said hi if you run into him. Cheers!!
Good luck. You'll be greatly missed.
Congratulations!
Congratulations on your new position, Colleen. I wish you all the best.
I wish you all the best, Colleen. It sounds like you have exciting days ahead.
Congratulations! I'm so happy for you!
CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations! I look forward to working with you in the future. (How's that for optimism???)
Stay strong and thank you for all you have done.
Congratulations on the new role!
Congrats on your new venture!
Congrats on the new position! Best of luck!
Congratulations on the new position! Penguin's a great house!.
WOW! That is amazing news! I'll miss your agenting rants, of course, but I'm very happy for you.
I don't know you personally, but I follow your blog & tweets. Congratulations. You've been a wealther of information to the insides of the publishing world. Best of luck to you & the kitties!
Congrats on the new gig. I'm sure you'll be pivotal in the techno Spheniscidae's diabolical plans to take over the world.
Congratulations, and good luck! Thank you for everything you have done!
So sorry to see you go, but wish you the absolute best of luck in your new role. Thank you, thank you, thank you for everything you've done for us over the years!
Congratulations mah dear! So proud of you :)
Best of luck to, you. I don't know you personally but you gave me some great advice regarding my manuscript earlier in the year that was so helpful.
Good luck in your new position!
Tons and tons of luck to you in your new position. I hope you find much success and satisfaction. Just promise you'll keep on tweeting. This lurker needs the daily chuckle, okay?
HUGE congrats. It's easy to see how hard you work and how much you love this business. Best of luck to you. ^_^
I do have a question, Miss Lindsay, if you don't mind. See, months ago I tailored a query letter exactly to your standards based on pretty much everything you'd ever said, anywhere. I guess I stalked your blog in a way. ;)
It was right before you closed to queries and I was going to send it the day you opened your queue again.
I realize you're no longer agenting, but I wondered if I couldn't send it to you anyway - just to see if you would have liked it or not. Just out of curiosity. Because it's always been your query letter, this one.
I'm sure you'll continue to get hundreds of queries a week regardless of your new position, and no matter how many times you tell people.
But then I thought, well, it can't hurt to just ask, right?
Major congrats.
(Hello mynfel! I'm Kapunua on deviantart. :)
Congratulations, Colleen, on your new position.
Faye
Hugs and only the best for you, Colleen. x0
ps. Hope Stinkyboy is feeling better today. You're a good kitty mum!
All the best in your new position. Have truly enjoyed your tweets and advise at #askagent. I hope you have informed your feline overlords about the move to birds.
WOW! I wish you great luck and happiness with Penguin,
I'm very happy for you. My first book's coming from Penguin Perigee, so I feel like I'm welcoming a co-worker (which I know I'm not, but that's how I feel anyway).
I'm looking forward to hearing what you'll be doing for them.
Congratulations and good luck! Will be interesting to see what happens next!
BEst of luck! I'll still be watching closely on Twitter because, well, you make me laugh. Lots.
Congrats! Congrats!!
Does this mean you'll be able to afford a better apartment and we won't get those hilarious tweets about the leaky roof and landlord from hell? I'll miss those.
After getting a glowing rejection from you last year, I've been doing a complete overhaul on that novel, hoping to resubmit it to you some day. Sigh.
But this has to be a good move for you. I hope you're happy (and prosperous) in your new role.
And please keep blogging!
Congratulations! I guess this means we'll be working together soon. look forward to it!
Sorry to see you go, but congratulations on the new job!
Congratulations! Exciting news. Can't wait to her more about it.
I'm so happy for you, congratulations!!
~that rebel, Olivia
I am so so so super happy for you! Congratulations!
Biggest congratulations! Have fun downtown in the land of flightless aquatic waterfowl.
Congratulations on the new job. I hope you enjoy it!
X K8
Congratulations! How exciting!
My big question is: ARE YOU GOING TO GET TO MOVE???
:-)
Congrats. That is wonderful to hear. Good Luck in your new venture.
Colleen, I wish you the best of the luck with the publishing side (oddly, I have a cozy Penguin contract coming up through Berkeley Prime Crime) and I want to thank you for your HONESTY as an agent. You probably don't remember, but an interaction back in January gave me some clarity on my WiP (different work) and query that no other agent had given the time to provide. I think you provided a great service as an agent, but think the publishing side will benefit from your honesty as well. (there are some truths they need, and it seems you have the cajones to provide them)
Glad for you, though I'll miss you at our mutual writers conferences!
Awesome for you! Booo for us!
You go Colleen! Penguins rock - and so do the books.
Mischa KK Bagley.
You go Colleen! Penguins rock - and so do the books.
Mischa KK Bagley.
That's so exciting! I wish you oodles of happiness in your new position!
Congratulations. Fantastic news for you. Get in touch.
Super! I'm a Penguin author. I sure hope your job description includes "promote Jenna Glatzer's books incessantly." ;)
And I hope you love the new job.
Wow, Colleen. Congratulations! Wishing you much success in your new venture (and keeping fingers crossed that it means we'll have an opportunity to work together down the road).
Congratulations on your new position at Penguin! Wishing you much success!
Congrats!! This is very wonderful news and I'm sure you'll be fantastic in your new position. Want to hear more about it once you can post.
Best wishes on your new position. Looking forward to lurking about in future posts.
Congrats, enjoy your new adventures!
w00t!
Congrats Colleen. I hope it's a good move for you and that you'll continue your blog.
Congratulations on your new job!
Congratulations on your new job! That's awesome!
Congratulations on your new position. I hope your blog endures. Best of luck.
~jon
How exciting, Colleen--at least, I hope it is! lol Congratulations!
Congratulations!
It was great meeting and talking with you at Backspace last year. Your frank, knowledgeable insights on the industry are invaluable. Bring just half that fire to the Penguin and you're destined to succeed!
Warmly,
Russ Viola
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