Oh felicitous rapture—a literary agent has offered representation. A long journey has come to a happy ending. Or has it? Take a deep breath. Before you accept, ask for a fortnight to think it over. Obviously, you have some relaxing to do because you just used the word fortnight. Okay, maybe that was me. Anyway,... Continue Reading →
Part five of our almost-ending series of posts about deciding if a particular agent is for you looks at three different balances of power in the author-agent relationship. (Part four in the series is here, part three is here, part two is here, part one is here.) Ladies and gentlemen I give you... WHO THE... Continue Reading →
Part the fourth in a six-part series, here are one, two and three. Another one of the million things to consider when mulling over an offer of representation, is whether he/she is an editorial agent. Pretty easy to tell the difference. An uneditorial agent will say he/she leaves the editing up to the editor. An... Continue Reading →
And now we come to Part Three of BUT ARE YOU A MATCH, Part One is here, Part Two is here. An agent's first role is that of SALESMAN. Every salesman must rely on a list of contacts, or in the case of a literary editor, a list of editors. So today, our topic... Continue Reading →
Part Two of the series BUT ARE YOU A MATCH? (prt 1 here) could also be called: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P0hG3sD0-E Because different agents have different ideas about what his/her role is as your representative. Some do it all, and some have a very narrow range of what they want from you. So let us consider: AGENT AREA... Continue Reading →
http://youtu.be/e_RWrLZb5N8 If you didn't see that coming, you just don't know me. People are different--I know that comes as a complete shock to all of you writers. (<---SARCASM) And when The Call comes, we dream that on the other end of our tired little flip phone is our knight in shining armor, come to... Continue Reading →
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