Sentences with phrase «far as literary agents»

I think that I am unique as far as literary agents go, since I've been around this business all my life, having grown up with parents working in the book business.

Not exact matches

In addition to what I mentioned above in terms of what attracts a literary agent to an author, once an author has gone as far as they can go with the writing / editing of the manuscript and honed in on a knock - out query letter / hook, then it is time to begin the process of querying a literary agent.

Like more and more publishers, Amazon Publishing is taking a gamble on authors who've already enjoyed self - publishing success, a far cry from only a handful of years ago when a history of self - publishing pretty much sealed an author's fate as far as traditional publishers and literary agents were concerned.

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..

Lownie noted, literary agents have become more like «sports agents or celebrity managers,» in so far as they now need to look after their authors» entire career (s).

The reason is that I do not support the elitism endemic amongst literary agents and traditional publishers: at least as far as the literary fiction genre goes.

Never even got as far as the publishers, he dead ended with the first line of gatekeepers, the literary agents.

I've gone so far as to change my blog URL because I'm tired of reading writer's blogs of those who desperately submit their work to literary agents.