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Don't know if this has been asked before (I'm asking for a friend), but allow me to set up the scenario.
A writer's agent got a deal with a small house for the first novel in a series. Since the launch, sales have been dismal, and the agent seems disinterested in working any further with the author. My friend is ready to change agents, but is wondering if any of them would be willing to take on the second book and pitch it to a better house. He says although it's a series, each story can be read as a stand-alone. By the way, per his contract he gets his rights back to that first novel in another twelve months.
Has anyone ever heard of an agent doing this, i.e., taking on a writer with a stillborn book? More to the point, what their names?
Thanks.
A writer's agent got a deal with a small house for the first novel in a series. Since the launch, sales have been dismal, and the agent seems disinterested in working any further with the author. My friend is ready to change agents, but is wondering if any of them would be willing to take on the second book and pitch it to a better house. He says although it's a series, each story can be read as a stand-alone. By the way, per his contract he gets his rights back to that first novel in another twelve months.
Has anyone ever heard of an agent doing this, i.e., taking on a writer with a stillborn book? More to the point, what their names?
Thanks.