Where to start with agent search...

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Lavinia

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It was suggested here that I begin looking for an agent. I've done a search here on the board and come up with more "Bewares" than anything. Am I missing something? Is there a good book or website to help with a search? Or does anyone have a suggestion for an agency that may be interested in a memoir that involves a daughter, her father, 400 pages of letters written during the war and a secret that surfaced just in time?

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Go to agentquery.com

You can search by genre. Great info, with links to agency web pages.
 
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You're going to need to put a proposal together, too. You might as well get that going as you begin searching for an agent.

See Jenna's sample proposal here. This has good information of how to write a proposal.

And don't forget that help is available in the SYW forum if you need it.

Good luck. And agentquery is easy to use. Don't forget to read its informative articles.

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Try www.aar-online.com too. Also, for a non-fiction book, I trust you're also directly contacting publishers too. If not and you want to, let us know.
 
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