Having been rejected by some of the top agents in NYC, though I did have one request a full manuscript before swatting me down, I elected to try some western writers and their agents.
I consider my novel to be historical fiction but it occurs west of the Mississippi so...
I go to the local library and make a list of Western authors with more than one title published.
Got to Publisher's Marketplace, sign up, and search 37 names. Two have agents listed. None of the others turned up even a close hit. I'm thinking that maybe the western authors are pen names for established writers in other genres. I did notice they tend to use a lot of initials, such as L.L. Foreman, H.B. Broome.
The publishers I saw were recognizable and certainly not vanity publishers.
I've researched author/agent matchs at PM before and almost always had hits. What gives???
I consider my novel to be historical fiction but it occurs west of the Mississippi so...
I go to the local library and make a list of Western authors with more than one title published.
Got to Publisher's Marketplace, sign up, and search 37 names. Two have agents listed. None of the others turned up even a close hit. I'm thinking that maybe the western authors are pen names for established writers in other genres. I did notice they tend to use a lot of initials, such as L.L. Foreman, H.B. Broome.
The publishers I saw were recognizable and certainly not vanity publishers.
I've researched author/agent matchs at PM before and almost always had hits. What gives???