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Forum: Ask the Agent

Our guest literary agents answer your questions.

  1. Sticky Thread Sticky: Jessica Faust of Book Ends Literary Ask An Agent Guest

    Started by AW Admin, 09-28-2018 09:30 PM
    • Replies: 130
    • Views: 17,334
    MTaylorUSA
    12-03-2018, 02:42 AM Go to last post

  2. Sticky Thread Sticky: On Queries and Agents: Information Sources

    Started by Andrew Jameson, 06-03-2005 10:52 PM
    • Replies: 73
    • Views: 77,887
    PhelanLutze
    05-28-2018, 05:13 AM Go to last post

  3. Sticky Thread Sticky: Successful Queries

    Started by ORION, 01-15-2007 01:23 AM
    • Replies: 153
    • Views: 123,690
    Daggilarr
    01-06-2018, 11:31 AM Go to last post

  4. Sticky Thread Sticky: List of Agent Blogs

    Started by nancy02664, 08-09-2006 10:56 PM
    • Replies: 122
    • Views: 132,386
    Gravity
    07-01-2014, 12:44 AM Go to last post

  5. Sticky Thread Sticky: Ask Kathleen Ortiz! Ask the Agent Summer Spree!

    Started by MacAllister, 05-14-2010 06:31 AM
    • Replies: 313
    • Views: 120,766
    MacAllister
    10-18-2010, 08:28 AM Go to last post

  6. Sticky Thread Sticky: Ask Jennifer Laughran! Tireless agent-in-residence!

    Started by victoriastrauss, 09-11-2008 12:02 AM
    • Replies: 1,154
    • Views: 303,184
    MacAllister
    04-28-2010, 05:20 AM Go to last post

  7. Sticky Thread Sticky: Ask Lucienne Diver! Guest agent arriving week of January 15th

    Started by Cathy C, 01-08-2007 04:48 AM
    • Replies: 150
    • Views: 106,006
    JennaGlatzer
    01-20-2007, 05:15 AM Go to last post

  1. Do I need to mention ex-agent from years ago when querying for new manuscript?

    Started by PerchanceToDream, 12-06-2019 12:51 AM
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 135
    Perks
    12-06-2019, 06:54 PM Go to last post

  2. An offer at last!! But...

    Started by Tarley, 10-09-2019 10:26 PM
    • Replies: 37
    • Views: 1,788
    Siri Kirpal
    12-02-2019, 03:35 AM Go to last post

  3. Genre help

    Started by Kithica, 11-17-2019 01:49 AM
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 281
    cool pop
    11-17-2019, 07:23 AM Go to last post

  4. Question Query Letter Critique Feedback - YA SFF

    Started by MattWard, 11-15-2019 09:04 PM
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 218
    KBooks
    11-15-2019, 09:11 PM Go to last post

  5. Agents who are also writers: Good or bad?

    Started by pls210, 10-06-2019 10:20 PM
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 828
    cool pop
    11-05-2019, 05:59 AM Go to last post

  6. Should I tell this agent I'm going to self-publish a book?

    Started by rosepetal720, 10-29-2019 08:19 AM
    • Replies: 13
    • Views: 758
    Fuchsia Groan
    11-04-2019, 03:44 AM Go to last post

  7. Can someone help identify what about my query letter isn't working?

    Started by Waterlyric, 10-20-2019 02:29 AM
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 486
    CaoPaux
    10-20-2019, 02:43 AM Go to last post

  8. "Batches" of querying - should top-pick agents come first? A mixture?

    Started by gbhike, 09-27-2019 08:14 PM
    • Replies: 17
    • Views: 773
    tko
    10-06-2019, 07:41 PM Go to last post

  9. Query Letter: Err toward specificity and details or creating questions that agents want answers to?

    Started by gbhike, 10-02-2019 08:08 AM
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 565
    Thomas Vail
    10-05-2019, 10:10 AM Go to last post

  10. "What's my market?" issues (should I leave the CBA & if so how)

    Started by SwallowFeather, 08-09-2019 01:50 AM
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 907
    SwallowFeather
    10-04-2019, 01:11 AM Go to last post

  11. Does anyone here include a synopsis by default in their queries?

    Started by gbhike, 09-27-2019 08:18 PM
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 551
    cool pop
    10-02-2019, 03:49 AM Go to last post

  12. CNRs and Querying other agents at the same agency

    Started by litdawg, 09-06-2019 05:53 PM
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 692
    gbhike
    09-27-2019, 07:58 PM Go to last post

  13. Visiting websites from querying writers

    Started by Patty, 09-17-2019 09:06 PM
    • Replies: 18
    • Views: 990
    Barbara R.
    09-25-2019, 03:17 AM Go to last post

  14. When an agent you've queried moves to another agency with an agent you've queried . . .

    Started by litdawg, 09-19-2019 07:09 PM
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 560
    BPhillipYork
    09-23-2019, 01:17 AM Go to last post

  15. Publishing Chapters in Literary Magazine

    Started by Paul Lamb, 05-15-2019 03:55 AM
    • Replies: 15
    • Views: 1,945
    cornflake
    09-17-2019, 06:35 PM Go to last post

  16. Is no response to fulls and R&Rs standard?

    Started by Tarley, 08-25-2019 07:29 PM
    • Replies: 47
    • Views: 2,471
    D.L. Shepherd
    09-07-2019, 12:02 AM Go to last post

  17. Pasting a Manuscript in the Email

    Started by theWallflower, 08-29-2019 04:50 PM
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 841
    Gillhoughly
    09-01-2019, 05:21 AM Go to last post

  18. Question about OwnVoices

    Started by darkangel77, 08-30-2019 07:46 AM
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 928
    kuwisdelu
    08-31-2019, 02:34 AM Go to last post

  19. How to part ways with my literary agent without hurting my future chances

    Started by PerchanceToDream, 08-26-2019 10:39 PM
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 1,051
    Earthling
    08-27-2019, 06:55 PM Go to last post

  20. Choosing an agent

    Started by cgswe, 08-25-2019 05:24 AM
    • Replies: 13
    • Views: 1,082
    lizmonster
    08-26-2019, 04:05 PM Go to last post
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