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I'm told that it's not enough to query agents whose listed genres include the one you're writing in -- it's too broad and means too many things, you need to find an agent who loves the very same kind of literature you're writing. Ie, line up a dozen mystery agents and each of them will have their own ten favorites, their own preferences and peeves -- and maybe only one of them will be a bingo for your work.
Well I know what I like and it's not Dan Brown. I'm all for the old and classic, tradition with a T, leafy-autumn all-American literary -- and in particular where I seem to feel at ease & in kindred with are the best works of the House of Scribner ... Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Wolfe and all those American authors of the 'modern' age up to the postwar Beats. That's the kind of thing I've always been after, and now after many years of work that's what I've got.
So what I'm looking for, and what I need help with from all you Absolute Writers, is any leads on agents whose taste for mainstream literary fiction might happily coincide with mine. Has anyone ever heard of agents who love these authors? Agents who love traditional, big novels? Any agent who would love to see a Bildungsroman like Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise, something with the iron ring of The Sun Also Rises or a huge novel of lush, rich prose like Wolfe's?
I'm all alone, totally unknown, and very much appreciate your help.
Well I know what I like and it's not Dan Brown. I'm all for the old and classic, tradition with a T, leafy-autumn all-American literary -- and in particular where I seem to feel at ease & in kindred with are the best works of the House of Scribner ... Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Wolfe and all those American authors of the 'modern' age up to the postwar Beats. That's the kind of thing I've always been after, and now after many years of work that's what I've got.
So what I'm looking for, and what I need help with from all you Absolute Writers, is any leads on agents whose taste for mainstream literary fiction might happily coincide with mine. Has anyone ever heard of agents who love these authors? Agents who love traditional, big novels? Any agent who would love to see a Bildungsroman like Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise, something with the iron ring of The Sun Also Rises or a huge novel of lush, rich prose like Wolfe's?
I'm all alone, totally unknown, and very much appreciate your help.