What to do if agent won't accept "unsolicited queries"?

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Ugh. So no unsolicited queries now. How in the heck can you get around that? What do you submit to request permission to submit a query for goodness sake? Think I'll bang my head against a wall now.
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Try and solicit a query.
Network a lot. Try to hang out where editors are - cons etc. Try to get an established writer to champion you.
 

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Yeah, networking's pretty much the only opition for such agents. But keep an eye on them: they might have an "open" period if a current client goes elsewhere.
 

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Writing Jedi said:
Ugh. So no unsolicited queries now. How in the heck can you get around that? What do you submit to request permission to submit a query for goodness sake? Think I'll bang my head against a wall now.
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You look for another agent. When an agent says "no unsolicited queries," it nearly always means she has all the clients she can handle in a professional manner. She might take on a client recommended to her by Stephen King or God, but that's it.

There almost never a time when it's productive to look for ways to land this agent. She has a reason for not wanting queries, else she wouldn't say she did. There are other agents. Go get one.
 

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Writing Jedi said:
Ugh. So no unsolicited queries now. How in the heck can you get around that? What do you submit to request permission to submit a query for goodness sake? Think I'll bang my head against a wall now.
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Writing Jedi said:
Ugh. So no unsolicited queries now. How in the heck can you get around that? What do you submit to request permission to submit a query for goodness sake? Think I'll bang my head against a wall now.
smile.gif

You look for another agent. When an agent says "no unsolicited queries," it nearly always means she has all the clients she can handle in a professional manner. She might take on a client recommended to her by Stephen King or God, but that's it.

There almost never a time when it's productive to look for ways to land this agent. She has a reason for not wanting queries, else she wouldn't say she did. There are other agents. Go get one.