Uwe
What I am looking for
I just read your message.
I will admit that on days where I receive over 80 queries via email and snail mail, I will sometimes revert to the "not right for me at this time" or "not what I am looking for right now."
While your query was well written and the topic interesting, in nonfiction, if I am signing True Crime, I am looking for a more high profile project than the one you presented. My editorial contacts are looking for "national platform" for (either) author and/or project so if you wrote me, for instance, about the Phil Spector case, I would have asked to see the proposal. This is not a value judgment on you or your project, I just don't think I can sell that particular project. (And it might be the perfect project for another agent or another time.)
As far as what I am looking for: great fiction of pretty much any genre and in nonfiction I am looking for "national platform" projects of all kinds and excellent how-to and self-help. I am more open to nonfiction at this very time (although memoirs or narrative nonfiction should be of the "national" platform variety, but I will always take a look at a fiction project where the query "blows me away" (whatever that means in this subjective field).
Best,
Uwe
I just read your message.
I will admit that on days where I receive over 80 queries via email and snail mail, I will sometimes revert to the "not right for me at this time" or "not what I am looking for right now."
While your query was well written and the topic interesting, in nonfiction, if I am signing True Crime, I am looking for a more high profile project than the one you presented. My editorial contacts are looking for "national platform" for (either) author and/or project so if you wrote me, for instance, about the Phil Spector case, I would have asked to see the proposal. This is not a value judgment on you or your project, I just don't think I can sell that particular project. (And it might be the perfect project for another agent or another time.)
As far as what I am looking for: great fiction of pretty much any genre and in nonfiction I am looking for "national platform" projects of all kinds and excellent how-to and self-help. I am more open to nonfiction at this very time (although memoirs or narrative nonfiction should be of the "national" platform variety, but I will always take a look at a fiction project where the query "blows me away" (whatever that means in this subjective field).
Best,
Uwe