Guide to Literary Agents

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It begins with a guide to using it, suggesting that you first read the articles and decide what you want from the book. Then it describes how to read the listings. That includes a key to reference icons that identify features unique to each listing. Like whether the agency is international, a new listing, Canadian, sells to e-publishers, or charges fees. Theres also an icon for agencies that handle only certain types of work, new agencies or those who are seeking new writers, or even those that accept only established writers.

Articles cover topics like Polishing Tips, Is Your Book Ready? Understanding Fees, Targeting and Hooking an Agent, Scam Alert, Outline and Synopsis Workshop, How To Find The Right Agent, Location vs. Representation: Is NY All That? and more. Theres an example of a successful query letter and a short article by the writer who sent it that is particularly illuminating. The sample of a novel synopsis, only one page long, provides a useful model of how to produce one of those!

Script agents are listed here along with literary agents and theres an index devoted to Agencies Indexed by Openness to Submissions. Note the questions for agents and for authors in the section titled What To Ask  And Not Ask  An Agent. Those are particularly useful.

This is a volume that should be on every writers bookshelf when he or she is ready to begin a serious search for an agent. This is definitely the place to learn about the world of agents and publishing houses.

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