All this time I’ve been sending query letters out. I had no idea all I really had to do was place an ad on Craigslist. Duh!
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/wri/593118763.html
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/wri/593118763.html
I am a self-published author
seeking industry representation from a literary agent. I am looking for someone who has experience distributing/selling children's literary works.
This offer is open to experience agents only.
The reason why putting your stuff out there and expecting an agent to snap it up, be it on Ebay, Craigslist, a content site, or whatever, is simple. Agents, like publishers, gettoo manyenough submissions across the transom. They have no need to go looking, and really no time, because they've got an officefull already. They're even less likely to look at those sources because people who use them tend to be uninformed about the publishing business. If they don't educate themselves on that, what are the chances that they've educated themselves on the fundamentals of creating a truly marketable manuscipt?
Though I just read about someone who built up a following for his book by podcasting it, and then landed a publisher...I don't recall the details, but I'm sure someone here knows.
How about a combo deal: a computer for sale which happens to have an unpublished ms on it. That might sell.