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Red, that is very Pitish.
It is, and yet, with my luck, that's exactly how it will play out.
Red, that is very Pitish.
It is, and yet, with my luck, that's exactly how it will play out.
That is a terrible query. I find it hard to believe the agent even read the manuscript in 1 hour before offering (124K word?) AND I don't think there are that many agents that even take lit fic. I queried all I could find (that were open to queries) with my 1st book and didn't reach more than 150, at best.
Lame-o.
According to QT, there are 492 literary agent to query. More than YA.
I read that too, and those results blew my mind.K@thl33n Ort!z is doing a poll on her blog about how people rank the qualities they look for in an agent. One of the biggest winners, so far, is a good online presence. How silly to me that you would rank that higher than proven sales, ebook knowledge, subsidiary rights knowledge. It is almost like saying you just want the popularity factor over actual skills (AND I'm not saying those who have a strong online presence don't have skills or deep knowledge, I just think the online persona is a silly criteria to use in agent hunting. The best agent might be one you've never heard of or who doesn't blog)