Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware I've recently gotten a number of reports
about a literary agent with a major agency who is offering representation with a «handshake» deal: representation based on a verbal commitment, rather than a binding... -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
I now have research calls and phone interviews; lunches
with literary agents and web developers; conference calls
about book titles and publishing schedules; and radio interviews and media prep calls.
Instead
literary agent John Brockman has posited a «third culture,» of scientists who communicate directly
with the public
about their work in media such as books without the intervening assistance of
literary types.
We spoke
with a number of Bologna - bound
literary agents about the.
And
literary agents meet
with editors and publishers first (or call them on the phone), to tell them what the book is
about.
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Click here to read
about the pros and cons of working
with a New York
literary agent in my Guide to Finding a Book
Agent.
Lakshmi Subramani Success Story Interview
with Mark Malatesta — During this insider interview on our
literary agent blog, Laskhmi Subramani, author of the memoir Lights Out shares his best tips for authors of all genres (at all stages of development)
about how to...
It's
about several writers whose unusual antics got them into hot (make that boiling) water
with the publishing industry (including
literary agents), the media, and their fans.
And make sure (if you haven't already) that you read the other article I wrote
about the pros and cons of working
with established
literary agents.
Click here to find out more
about literary agents new to the biz in this Guide to Finding a Book Agent, so you can protect yourself and make a wise decision
about who you work
with.
During the interview, Lakshmi also talks
about how he worked
with former
literary agent Mark Malatesta to improve his manuscript and pitch materials, resulting in
literary agency representation
with his first choice
literary agent, who then got offers from three major publishers: Penguin, Harper Collins, and Random House.
Investing in his program helped me find a
literary agent who's enthusiastic
about my work and treats me
with respect.
Jeri - Anne also talks
about how she worked
with former
literary agent Mark Malatesta to improve her query letter, synopsis, and manuscript, which resulted in
literary agency representation
with Sanford J. Greenburger Associates.
Jeri - Anne Agee Success Story Interview
with Mark Malatesta - During this insider interview on our
literary agent blog, Jeri - Anne Agee, author of the children's chapter book series The Life and Times of Birdie Mae Hayes shares advice for authors of all genres
about...
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Agents ™ website,
with detailed information
about all publishing
agents and literary agencies including: contact information, book genres, biographies, photos, and
agents and
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Mark is a former
literary agent with years of experience
about query letters that worked.
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literary agent Rachelle Gardner
about why authors benefit from working
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January 2010 I started blogging and by the end of 2012, so we are talking a good couple of years of blogging here, I built a speaking platform for myself, I had started podcasting, I was blogging a couple times a week, good community of people and then boom, the book offer comes in from a publisher in the U.S. and I didn't go
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about going back to that goal of someday writing a book and so I was introduced to a
literary agent and I obviously went the traditional publishing route
with Virtual Freedom but there's nothing wrong
with the self publishing route at all.
Ted Weinstein, a San Francisco
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Considering that Midnight Publishing's sole focus is to work one on one
with authors to prepare them and their manuscripts for publication or querying, we know quite a bit
about literary agents and are here to share some important tidbits.
What question would you ask
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with a former
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She talked
about her arrangement
with IngramSpark which gets print editions of her books into bookstores — still not an easy feat for indies — and revealed that she works now without a
literary agent, basically hiring only a foreign - rights
agent.
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Based on that
literary agent feedback, my client had concluded that «her concept wasn't good enough to get book
agents (and publishers) enthusiastic
about her work,» «she wasn't writing books aligned
with the trends in the current
literary marketplace,» and «her work wasn't commercial enough.»
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Literary Agent that you see here contains some of the information you'll find in our free Directory of
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Because there are no set requirements for a
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That sorry circumstance is captured in the story
about a writer who came home much earlier than usual to find his wife in bed
with his
literary agent.
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Literary Agent that you see here contains some of the information you'll find in our free Directory of
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Here's a
literary agent who's very specific
about the kind of book she'd like to see in her inbox: «I love books
with some kind of psychological element, like if the MC has a mental illness or if they can't trust their mind.»
Approved by my
agent at the time, I signed a traditional contract a few years ago
with publisher Aflame Books, whose backlist (of twenty
literary fiction titles in their first English translations) was
about to be supplemented by a new imprint for original - English - language fiction, starting
with my novel The Imagination Thief as this imprint's launch title.
Mary Kole,
literary agent with Andrea Brown
Literary Agency, was one of the speakers and evaluators for this conference, spoke
with GoodEReader.com
about the expectations from both the authors and the
agents.