Byrd Leavell·Oct 18, 2021Byrd Leavell on Submitting to a Literary Agent: Separating the Generic Proposals from the…Literary agents are inundated with daily submissions from hopeful authors. Publisher Byrd Leavell offers some insight into what sets the…A response icon1A response icon1
Byrd Leavell·Sep 28, 2021Byrd Leavell Discusses Key Strategies for Finding the Right Literary AgentBRONXVILLE, NY / ACCESSWIRE / September 28, 2021 / With more than fifteen years in the publishing sphere, seasoned agent and head of…
Byrd Leavell·Sep 17, 2021UTA Publishing Builds Its Client List“You have this stereotype. ‘I’m going to walk into this place and there’s gonna be some guy with a baseball bat, swinging it around, with a…
Byrd Leavell·Sep 16, 2021Byrd Leavell Believes Literary Marketing Success Shouldn’t be the Sole RByrd Leavell Believes Literary Marketing Success Shouldn’t be the Sole Responsibility of the Publisher
Byrd Leavell·Sep 3, 2021How TikTok Makes Backlist Books into BestsellersIn August 2016, Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us was published by Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books. By the end of its first month on the…
Byrd Leavell·Aug 30, 2021Byrd Leavell — Head of Publishing at UTAByrd Leavell oversees the publishing department at UTA, a leading global talent and entertainment company. He is based in the New York…