LITERARY AGENTS
10 Things NOT To Say to an Agent or Editor # 5 (+Blog Carnival)
#5: “Hey, I just checked out your site and it looks pretty cool - wanna represent my brilliant book?…. Call me! Ted :-)”
….Or some such. The tone of your initial query e-mail to an agent or editor is all important. The trick is to be friendly but professional.
There’s no need to be stuffy, or to use big […]
10 Things NOT to say to an Agent or Editor, #4 (+VBT Update)
#4: “This is the first of a trilogy.”
Writers often don’t realise it but when you submit work to an agent or editor , what you are asking is for them to invest money in you. And you are a risky prospect. Even if they love the work and can see financial potential in it, they […]
10 Things NOT to say to an Agent or Editor, # 3
#3: “Do you represent/publish sci-fi?”
It might sound demanding but literary agents and commissioning editors expect you to know what categories or genres of writing they represent/publish. All agents and publishers are not the same and it wastes everybody’s time when writers submit work that is inappropriate.
Every week we get queries or submissions in a category or […]
10 Things NOT To Say to an Agent or Editor, # 2.
#2: “I’m not going to write another book until I know this one is being published.”
Writers think in terms of books. Agents and publishers think in terms of careers. They know that most first books fail to get attention and that a second, or often a third title, is necessary before a writer […]
10 Things NOT to Say to an Agent or Editor (+ Publishing News)
For the next ten days, we’re running a blog series on the pitfalls writers regularly fall into when trying to land a publishing deal.
10 Things Not To Say to an Agent or Editor, No 1: “Please read the attached writing and give me feedback.”
Writers want feedback. It’s understandable but think about it: if we were […]
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