Sentences with phrase «get a literary agent because»

Most authors fail to get a literary agent because they're «shooting at the wrong target.»

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EMILY BLUNT and her sister are fast creating a family film empire - the actress is currently developing books her literary agent sibling has sent her.The Young Victoria star feels very lucky because she gets...

I tell my clients to (temporarily) disregard the feedback in literary agent rejection letters, because, if I'm working with the author in a long - term program to help them get literary agents reading their work, I know their writing is at a high enough level that they should give the manuscript a chance before making radical revisions and / or hiring an editor.

One last thing: New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker once blogged that the best way to get a literary agent is to write three books — because first - time contracts with first - time authors typically cover three or more books.

Another often visited a literary agent's blog and her query got noticed because the agent remembered her.

I chose to publish via Amazon this summer because for me, getting my novel in the hands of readers and focusing on crafting a quality product is what matters most — not lining the pockets of literary agents, editors, marketeers, and publishing houses.

That's because literally anyone can call himself an agent, create a website, print some business cards, and get listed in some of the print and online literary agent directories.

Getting an agent is hard enough — the last thing you need it to get rejected because you're literary agent information is unreliable.

«If Bloomsbury had sold the first serial rights to this piece, Keith would have gotten 90 percent of the revenue anyway because of the way those arrangements are structured,» says Ted Weinstein, Devlin's literary agent.

The flip side of this argument is that picture book authors often get literary agents and publishers faster than authors of other genres — because picture books are so short!

Because literally anyone can call himself an agent, create a website, print some business cards, and get listed in some of the print and online literary agent directories.

Miri Leshem - Pelly, author of Scribble and Author (Kane Miller) because she got offers from three top literary agents.

And because you've gotten their permission your referral person also may even be kind enough to give the literary agent a call or email to let them know that you'll be reaching out to them.

Otherwise the response time on the project will be longer; the book might be submitted to the wrong person (often someone who doesn't even work there anymore); the editor will wonder what's wrong with the literary agent or the author since no one cared enough to make a real pitch; and, if you do get an offer, it will be smaller because it will probably be the only offer.

I've read that some authors and some agents, too, have mixed feelings about pitch sessions, but I love them — not only because I can pitch my work, but because I get valuable information from every literary agent I talk to, and also because meeting agents as people helps me humanize the whole experience.

So in the same way that the realtor will try to get you a good price (but will be reluctant to jeopardize the sale by asking too much), your literary agent won't ask for a killer sum just because you think your book is worth it.

Getting a top literary agent is hard enough, so the last thing you need is to get rejected because the book agent directory you're using isn't accurate.

I ask because a friend of mine just went through nearly 4 years before the book got out there: the author spent a year of query letter rejections before finally landing a literary agent; then it took a year of submissions for the agent to land a publisher; then it took well over a year for the book to get on the publisher's schedule for launch date.

And according to literary agent Frank Kroll, who was at the event to pitch Fake Metal Jacket by German author Sven Recker, one part of that magic simply has to do with the coming together of these players in one spot: «It's brilliant,» he told Publishing Perspectives, «because they're impossible to get together otherwise.

Yet at the same time, when the agent I have been working with the past 10 months emails me and says she's quitting the literary agency business because the industry is in freefall and publishing houses aren't buying, then that got me thinking.