It's been recommended that I submit my book, From Demons To DID, to the Christian markets rather than the "mainstream." I would like to know what I can do to grab the eye of a "mainstream" agent. Any ideas at all would be appreciated. It is complete and ready to go.
Thanks,
Robin
Who recommended this?
Anyway, mainstream agent or not, an agent submits the book to publishers she believes will want it.
It isn't about which agent you have, it's about where your book fits best in the market.
Any agent will take a book that matches her contact list, and that she believes will sell.
I think there's also some confusion abut Christian market versus mainstream market. Mainstream really is not a genre, it's any book from any genre that grabs the attention of the mainstream reading audience.
Some writers from every genre I can think of are considered mainstream writers, simply because the books they write are read by the biggest single group of readers out there, which is the mainstream reading public.
No matter where you book is published, if it catches the attention of the general reading public, it will become mainstream.
But where it's published really will not be determined by an agent. The best agent out there can't get a book published with a publisher where the powers that be simply don't think it's a good fit for their market/distributors/readers.
An agent who wants mainstream novels wants any book that will sell to readers of all types, from all genres, from all walks of life. If your book has this quality, any agent will take it on, and nearly any large publisher will buy it.
But it's always what your book has to say, how it says it, and who the most likely readers will be, that determines publisher and market, not who the agent is.