Question about agent-requested revisions

I try to only give her something I consider ready to go out on submission.

Your agent (or any reader) only has so many reads in them for a project. I make is the best it can be.

Curius. Is this your first project with the agent? If so, it surprises me that an agent would take on a project that requires hefty revisions. I'm going on the assumption that you have signed with this agent already and you aren't just changing all of it to try to land said agent. And to change 60% of a story for an agent kinda baffles me.

I would have thought revisions would be up to an editor after the work is sold. Sure an agent would have some suggestions, but again this seems a little extreme. Then again, I'm new to all of this so what would I know.

JJ

Actually it's fairly common for a set of revisions to occur before submission and even before an agent signs a client...you only get one shot with editors and agents know the kind of shape a manuscript needs to be in...

JJ Cooper said:

Curius. Is this your first project with the agent? If so, it surprises me that an agent would take on a project that requires hefty revisions.

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That's how agents usually work.

Yes, you the writer shouldn't send something that you don't feel is ready for submission to publishers; the agent will almost certainly disagree, though.