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Laremy

Hi there!

I've lurked for a few months soaking up all the knowledge the AWWW has to offer but I think I have a question that hasn't been broached... I'll try and make it as brief as possible, soul of wit, yada yada.

Background: I write novels (two of em, not published) and have self published a few things too. I also write for a website in a completely different genre, namely movie reviews.

My question is this: Should I leverage the visibility of the website (500k unique readers of my work per month) to try and make inroads on the fiction route? If so, in what manner (mentioning fiction, posting PDF of manuscript, soliciting agent)? Or are the two writing styles not related or transferable?

The reason I ask is I acquired an agent for my first novel, but he passed on the second novel so I'm looking for someone to rep that work. I'm not sure whether to mention my other, more visible writing in queries either because it may dismiss me as a writer of fiction.

Any thoughts? Thanks!

PS- I'll do my best to answer questions going forward, no more lurking here, though I'm not an expert in anything.
 
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Excuse my confusion.

Are you currently a fiction writer crossing over to non-fiction?

A non-fiction writer crossing over to fiction?

Or a fiction writer staying in fiction but switching genres?

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Laremy

Fiction/Non

I'm not crossing over at all, I write reviews because I like movies, I write fiction because I love it. The difference is I've had more success writing non fiction so far.

It seems from your response that people reading my non fiction won't be very interested in my fiction... but I may be interpreting too much.
 
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Having a website that gets 500k unique hits per month is some pretty beefy leverage. I would mention it to any prospective agent. The fact that it's a movie review site, instead of say....a site all about left-handed tools, means it can arguably 'grow' a book section.

Sheeesh...I think you've got a very useful shop front there, and imho you'd be silly not to make any potential agent aware of it.
 

Laremy

Thanks!

I appreciate your counsel, I'll start throwing it in some queries to see if it sticks. I guess this whole process is hard enough without trying to overthink it eh? Any pub must be good pub, short of plagiarism or robbing a bank...
 
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