Few literary
agents are interested in book ideas.
Side note: A «partial» request is when
an agent is interested in your book and requests to see a number of chapters from it.
Not exact matches
Even though he'd clicked on a specific property, the
agent asked which hotel he
was interested in booking, along with his name and Marriott rewards number.
You don't have enough king James scripture verses
in it for any Christian publisher to
be interested in putting it out (I've talked to Christian
agents about this, and they
are as frustrated as the writers at how boxed
in to rigid rules Christian
books have to
be) and that
is a sad fact about
book publishing today.
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're interested in booking me to speak, contact my speaking
agent, Jim Chaffee.)
Although the
book was uniquely composed of the file kept by
agents on the man they named «51,» and
was hardly a traditional spy story, several directors expressed
interest in the film rights: Claude Chabrol, Jacques Deray, Jean - Pierre Melville, Edouard Luntz.
To get movie
interest you need an
agent that specializes
in that and the way to inspire the rights sale of your
book is to get a ton of
book sales, a lot of media attention, and support from known people who provide strong testimonials for your
book.
You also might
be interested in «the numbers» when it comes to
book agents and diversity, since there
are a lot more literary
agents seeking diversity than most authors realize:
If your
book is non-fiction, explain the arc of your reader's Quickly make the
agent interested in receiving a
book proposal.
This article will show you, step - by - step, how to find literary
agent information that will let you: 1) Find the publishing
agents most likely to
be interested in your
book, 2) Figure out which
book agents are the most reputable and successful, and 3) Find out the best way to approach those
book agents.
In other words, literary agents that are interested in your type of book who are also a good fit for your personality and complement your desires (and possibly weaknesses) as an autho
In other words, literary
agents that
are interested in your type of book who are also a good fit for your personality and complement your desires (and possibly weaknesses) as an autho
in your type of
book who
are also a good fit for your personality and complement your desires (and possibly weaknesses) as an author.
If you
're interested in foreign publication rights for a Thomas Nelson
book, please contact our
agent in the appropriate territory:
You
're basically paying an
agent who has no real
interest in what you wrote to get your
book e-published.
«Mark helped me to get a top literary
agent a while back, and now my novel, «The Wrong Hand» (a psychological thriller)
is published with an imprint / division of Penguin
Books called Michael Joseph that
is «principally
interested in publishing Top Ten Bestsellers».
You see, a
book needs to come to life with its author knowing what audience
is expected to read it, or else most publishers (and literary
agents) won't
be interested in it.
As you suggest, the point of a good query
is to get at the heart of what the
book is about, so I'd think
in the long run, better, more focused queries would help
agents see more quickly whether this
is the kind of story likely to
interest them.
Loiacono Literary Agency employs three
agents (Jeanie Loiacono, President / CEO,
agent, Johnnie Bernhard,
agent and author, and Melissa Carrigee,
agent and author, graphic artist, cover artist, and
book trailer designer) who
are interested in all quality works from children's picture
books to literary fiction and all nonfiction.
Since an
agent's main job
is to become familiar with the
interests of acquiring editors and executives at the major publishing houses, and sell them
books, it makes sense for most
agents to live
in New York.
That
agent and later a more high - powered one
in New York
were both unable to
interest a publisher
in the
book.
I'd suggest that once your
book is finished and polished, you try querying
agents who
are interested in memoir (you can find them
in the searchable database at AgentQuery.com.)
At this point, if you hand me a query letter, I can practically blink and tell you if literary
agents are going to
be interested in your
book; I can tell you, almost as quickly, how to fix your query if it
's «broken.»
Literary
agents are paid on commission, which means that they have a deep
interest in selling the best
book they can, negotiating for the highest advance possible, and other lucrative contractual agreements
in terms of royalties, foreign rights, movie / tv rights, etc..
There
's no way to easily figure out which literary
agents are interested in any particular
book genre or category.
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How many
book agents and literary agencies
are interested in gay issues?
The Directory of Literary
Agents is also searchable by genre and location, so it's easy to find agents interested in your type of
Agents is also searchable by genre and location, so it
's easy to find
agents interested in your type of
agents interested in your type of
book.
And you'll find out how many publishing
agents and literary agencies
are interested in religious
books.
In other words, if you really believe in your ability to get a literary agent, you'll submit your work to every possible literary agent who might be interested in your boo
In other words, if you really believe
in your ability to get a literary agent, you'll submit your work to every possible literary agent who might be interested in your boo
in your ability to get a literary
agent, you'll submit your work to every possible literary
agent who might
be interested in your boo
in your
book.
When children's writers literary
agents say that they represent juvenile
books, it usually means they
're interested in both of the categories below.
When I hear an
agent or publisher say that about self - published
books, I know they — intentionally or otherwise —
are focused on something they shouldn't
be focused on if they
are interested in finding
books to sell.
Creating a list of
book agents for your
book can
be difficult, so I
'm going to help you: figure out which category or genre best describes your
book, learn more about your genre, and find a list of literary agencies
interested in your
book.
I followed all the
agents» rules, polished my query letter until my fingers bled, selected
agents who said they
were interested in books like mine — and got nowhere.
For example, an
agent might say on her website that she wants «children
's books» when she
's only
interested in picture
books and chapter
books (and not middle grade or young adult
books).
How many
book agents and literary agencies
are interested in New Age
books?
Ten minutes after reading the full manuscript, that
agent immediately called his go - to guy at HarperCollins and you
are offered a six -
book contract including a movie deal, and you get to meet Joss Whedon who
is interested in the project.
Because unless your self - published
book sells millions of copies, chances
are that an
agent or
book industry exec isn't going to
be interested in that publishing credit - or a bookstore.
It
's been a great year for foreign rights sales, largely due to the diligence of my
agent in pursuing those markets, as well as increasing international
interest in my
books.
Be that as it may (and don't start me down the Snooki path), presumably the literary agents were gatekeepers of quality, who then passed their clients» wares to publishers, who further thinned the herd, resulting in a clumsy industry algorithm that spat out books at the opposite end of the sausage machine — and the presumption was those books were competently written, would be of interest to someone, and were executed in a superior fashion; professional cover designers drew up art, professional editors checked grammar and punctuation and spelling, etc
Be that as it may (and don't start me down the Snooki path), presumably the literary
agents were gatekeepers of quality, who then passed their clients» wares to publishers, who further thinned the herd, resulting
in a clumsy industry algorithm that spat out
books at the opposite end of the sausage machine — and the presumption
was those
books were competently written, would
be of interest to someone, and were executed in a superior fashion; professional cover designers drew up art, professional editors checked grammar and punctuation and spelling, etc
be of
interest to someone, and
were executed
in a superior fashion; professional cover designers drew up art, professional editors checked grammar and punctuation and spelling, etc..
«The White House must
be more
interested in the author than
in the
book — I mean,
in Yan Haili, to find out if she
was secretly acting as a Chinese
agent.»
Although I did get contacted by a literary
agent in Korea who said a publisher there
was interested in the foreign translation rights which also led to another literary
agent in Japan taking on the
book.
The Literary
Agents list includes agents and literary agencies that represent poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, plus details about the kind of books they're interested in representing, their clients, and the best way to contact
Agents list includes
agents and literary agencies that represent poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, plus details about the kind of books they're interested in representing, their clients, and the best way to contact
agents and literary agencies that represent poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, plus details about the kind of
books they
're interested in representing, their clients, and the best way to contact them.
What many aspiring authors don't know
is that (1) the shelf - life of new
books in brick and mortar bookstores
is 2 - 6 weeks; (2) traditional authors get 8 - 15 % royalties vs. 70 % royalties for those self - published; (3) almost 30 % of hardcover and paperbacks end up
in landfills; (4) the timeframe between
book contract to actual publication at traditional houses
is 18 - 24 months; and (5)
agents are rarely
interested in authors who only have one
book up their sleeves.
If you
're interested in catapulting your
book to bestsellerdom, whether you've got a literary
agent and publisher, or you
're self - published, we've got the Publishing Game
books, audios, workshops, kits, consulting, and articles for you.
The most important element that will determine whether or not you'll get a literary
agent interested in your
book is the strength of your story.
As an extra for my clients, I even try to help them market their work with advice and suggestions as to who might
be interested in their novels or nonfiction
books (publisher,
agent, etc.).
Most authors begin their journey to a published
book by sending query letters to literary
agents whom they hope will
be interested in representing their
book.
However, if an
agent is interested in you and your
book, the next step
is a meeting with them to discuss it.
When the self - help indy author group I belonged to
was going strong, someone brought up the topic of how many
books you'd sell as an indy author before an
agent might
be interested in you, as having proved that yes, indeedy, there
was an audience for your
books.
An
interesting development: this week, the very widely read
agent Rachelle Gardner
is to release the first
in a series of
books designed to help authors navigate the shifting sands of publishing.
A query letter
is a one - page sales letter that you send to a literary
agent to pitch your
book and ask them if they would
be interested in representing you.