Agent 101 – Literary Agency Sales and Querying the Right Agent
If querying literary agents isn’t difficult enough, how is a writer who is attempting to break into the business supposed to decipher the sales figures that are posted by major agents in areas such as the Dead Reckoning section of Agent Search (which is superb by the way) when individual statistics during a 12 month [...]
Book Agent Query Letters – Finding the Right Agent For Your Novel
Many Agents Do Not Accept Unsolicited Material
In the fiction area of the book-agenting arena, other than some agents/agencies now requesting or requiring submissions via E-mail, the rules for presenting preliminary material have not changed appreciably in the past 15 to 20 years. What has changed is the number of agents who no longer accept unsolicited [...]
Finding an Agent For Your Novel – How a Query Letter Differs From a Synopsis
Query Letter Writing – a Daunting Dilemma
Some years ago, to add to a discussion I was encouraging related to the nuances of query letter writing, a woman who had just received a contract for her first novel–and with Simon & Schuster no less–wrote me to lament how arduous she had found the task of crafting [...]
Christian Horror – An Oxymoronic Statement or New Genre
I began writing what would eventually become my first novel, Suffering Madness, in 1995. My design goals at the time were fairly small – I was targeting the short story market in magazines to try to develop a name. After enough rejections to wallpaper my office, I realized my writing was pretty bad.
Fortunately, my desire [...]
Writing & Publishing Tips: How To Get a Top Literary Agent & Sign That Coveted 6 Figure Deal
Top literary agents get about 400-1000 unsolicited queries every month from hopeful book authors. Publishing houses sometimes juggle 5000. Most of my private clients and participants in my seminar, How To Get A Six-Figure Book Advance, ask me “how is an author supposed to get an agent’s attention when there is so much competition?”
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