To all those who have gone before...

and have a little more experience than me. Here's the quick back story. I'm in the middle of my second attempt at an adult novel (the first lovingly trunked). While I ultimately dream of having an adult novel published, I am constantly interrupted by ideas for children's books. So after my latest 'interruption' I decided to put it out there and see what would happen. Long story short, I got an agent and it will start going out to publishers mid-January.

So here's the questions, for those of you who have agents already:

1. Because my agent normally does not rep picture books (before you start to question, I chose her despite this for good reason), when I finish my novel should I present it to her first or is that being presumptuous thinking that she'd automatically want to see my work in a different genre?

2. And when I get another idea for a picture book (which I already do) should I send this her way too?

I know the second isn't a "novels" question for this thread, but it all goes together somewhat because I feel that (cross my fingers) if I do get published, I will always want to do both adult and children's books.

Anyhow, I'm jumping ahead a little bit, but wanted to know how this works, for future submissions. Thanks for any insight!

Sorry to be confusing. Yes, agented for Picture Book but wondering about Novel submissions and/or future Children's books.

No need for apologies Maxinquaye, I just wasn't sure on the protocol once you had an agent and didn't want to assume that I should ask about new projects.

Thanks for the info.