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Hi there,
This is my first post! (I pored over the newbie FAQ but apologies in advance on any snafus...)
Three years ago I had an agent who shopped my novel to about 10 YA and 10 adult market editors. Three or four of them are no longer editors.
(I have a list of the agents who saw the book.)
To keep everything above-board, I've already let the old agent go. (Not just because it didn't sell; there were sloppiness issues...) Now I'm looking for new representation, but the book I've written is completely different, completely re-imagined, re-titled and re-written. The "hook" in the first paragraph in my query is completely new to this second work. Maybe 7 percent of text (i.e. 20 or so pages) from the old made it to the new, but some of the character/place names are the same, and the theme (coming of age of a scholarship student @ a high school) is similar.
My question: I haven't mentioned the old representation in the query. I've gotten some manuscript requests (yay! but I know it's a long climb ahead) that I've gladly obliged. I haven't been mentioning the previous representation when I submit the manuscripts, but: Should I?
I feel like this is a grey area...but at the same time this is a separate, second novel. What do you think?
Thank you!
This is my first post! (I pored over the newbie FAQ but apologies in advance on any snafus...)
Three years ago I had an agent who shopped my novel to about 10 YA and 10 adult market editors. Three or four of them are no longer editors.
(I have a list of the agents who saw the book.)
To keep everything above-board, I've already let the old agent go. (Not just because it didn't sell; there were sloppiness issues...) Now I'm looking for new representation, but the book I've written is completely different, completely re-imagined, re-titled and re-written. The "hook" in the first paragraph in my query is completely new to this second work. Maybe 7 percent of text (i.e. 20 or so pages) from the old made it to the new, but some of the character/place names are the same, and the theme (coming of age of a scholarship student @ a high school) is similar.
My question: I haven't mentioned the old representation in the query. I've gotten some manuscript requests (yay! but I know it's a long climb ahead) that I've gladly obliged. I haven't been mentioning the previous representation when I submit the manuscripts, but: Should I?
I feel like this is a grey area...but at the same time this is a separate, second novel. What do you think?
Thank you!
