I’ve known David Henry Sterry and Arielle Eckstut for years and they are a dynamic team of writer and literary agent. They’re mid-tour (The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published) right now and if you are where they are and you have a book proposal you’ve been dying for someone to look at, this is your chance. Here’s the latest news from David.

As the aught decade fades into memory and the teens dawn, we wish for the things we always wish for.  World peace, enough to eat for everyone, and book deals for all who deserve them.  And we embark on the second half of our Book Doctors Rock America Pitchapalooza Tour.  We will be in the Midwest, the Rocky Mountains, New Orleans and our home away from home, the Bay Area, from Stanford to our old stomping ground over the Golden Gate Bridge, Book Passage.  Since we were lucky enough to land in the Sunday New York Times, Pitchapalooza has really taken off.  In our last event, at the great bookstore Anderson’s, we had over 300 writers assemble on a Thursday night in Naperville to pitch their books.  Already a bunch of writers now have agents as result of pitching to us, and several have interest from publishers.  And since we’re giving away a free consultation to everyone who buys her book, we’ve talked to dozens and dozens and dozens of writers who dream of being successfully published.  Werewolf books, mommy books, junkie books, Disneyland books, Muslim sex-in-the-city books, you name it, we’ve heard it.  And we continue to be astonished by how many talented writers have great ideas for books, but have no idea how to navigate the deadly minefields of the book business.  Here are our dates.  And we’re just setting up the rest of our 2011 schedule, so if you know of any group of writers who would like to partake of our workshop, or participate in a Pitchapalooza, just let us know.

Meanwhile, here’s some articles and fun stuff.

  • Nirvana in Naperville: 300 Writers Flock to Anderson’s for Pitchapalooza http://bit.ly/hVbbs1
  • Publisher’s Weekly: Citizen Author: Determined, Motivated, Fed-Up Authors: Unite http://bit.ly/fVg5xr
  • Don’t Jump the Gun: 10 Things To Do Before You Send Out Your Novel http://bit.ly/gbRe0h
  • How To Write 60 Books in 20 Years: The Book Doctors Interview Terry Whalin–Writer, Editor and Publisher Extraordinaire http://bit.ly/ekgVYo
  • Book Doctor on NPR: Books, Books, Books http://bit.ly/fiaEBh
  • Shouts & Murmurs: Subject: Our Marketing Plan : The New Yorker  http://bit.ly/hx6rMl
  • Book Doctors on Bookbuzzr: “GET ME ON OPRAH!” When and How to Market Your Book http://bit.ly/dPUszE
  • Excellent Review of The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published on Business News Online http://bit.ly/dJdFqQ
  • Anderson’s Naperville Pitchapalooza Video http://bit.ly/i5N8MZ
  • Happy New Year, and may all your dreams come true in 2011.  See you at the bookstore!

“It’s an eye-opening, astonishing, brutally honest and frequently funny collection from those who really have lived on the edge in a parallel universe…their tales are also graphic, politically incorrect and mostly unquotable in this newspaper.” – Toni Bentley, New York Times, on Hos, Hookers, Call Girls & Rent Boys by David Henry Sterry & RJ Martin