First, I apologize if this is the wrong forum, but this seems to be the forum with the most experience in querying, agents, publishers, changing representation, and all that goes with those topics.
If it's the wrong place, please direct me to the right one. Thank you, I really appreciate it.
Second, here's my situation. I'm querying a series of fantasy romance novels. The author queried them back in 2011 to about a dozen agents. Since she queried them as Christian Sweet Romance no one was interested except for Mary Seymour (hope I got the name right) who rejected the author because one of the characters used the word sh*t. After that she stopped querying and concentrated on writing as she has more than 80 novels in this series and is busy writing other series including a completely different fantasy romance series that would be marketed under fantasy romance and science fiction. I mention it because that will be the next series I query.
So, what I have learned from our fan base is that the novels that appeal to one reader don't necessarily interest our other readers. Tastes vary widely, more widely than I imagined.
I have at my disposal the opportunity to just send a link to a query agent and allow them to log into our member site and read whatever novel they want rather than ask for partials or pages.
This would allow the agent/publisher to read whatever novel they wish in its entirety rather than waiting to receive a partial or full manuscript.
I am worried, however, that most agents and publishers won't bother with that. I would hope that they would see the possibility of a long chain of 80 novels and that would persuade them to log in.
But I might just be wishful thinking.
Third, keeping in mind this is a series of about 80 novels which is better to query at this point--agents or publishers?
Fourth, which genre do I target? I don't want the series to be pigeonholed into Christian romance because that seemed to go nowhere when the author first tried. I don't want to fail or at least not fail completely.
Romance? Fantasy? Knowing that there is an occasional swear word and no references to Biblical scriptures I don't think a Christian romance publisher would take it, especially since some novels in the series approach other topics that those publishers don't want in their books.
So, those are my four questions/areas of concern. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you have a link to a specific publisher or agent that would also be incredibly helpful.
Thank you.
Cat
If it's the wrong place, please direct me to the right one. Thank you, I really appreciate it.
Second, here's my situation. I'm querying a series of fantasy romance novels. The author queried them back in 2011 to about a dozen agents. Since she queried them as Christian Sweet Romance no one was interested except for Mary Seymour (hope I got the name right) who rejected the author because one of the characters used the word sh*t. After that she stopped querying and concentrated on writing as she has more than 80 novels in this series and is busy writing other series including a completely different fantasy romance series that would be marketed under fantasy romance and science fiction. I mention it because that will be the next series I query.
So, what I have learned from our fan base is that the novels that appeal to one reader don't necessarily interest our other readers. Tastes vary widely, more widely than I imagined.
I have at my disposal the opportunity to just send a link to a query agent and allow them to log into our member site and read whatever novel they want rather than ask for partials or pages.
This would allow the agent/publisher to read whatever novel they wish in its entirety rather than waiting to receive a partial or full manuscript.
I am worried, however, that most agents and publishers won't bother with that. I would hope that they would see the possibility of a long chain of 80 novels and that would persuade them to log in.
But I might just be wishful thinking.
Third, keeping in mind this is a series of about 80 novels which is better to query at this point--agents or publishers?
Fourth, which genre do I target? I don't want the series to be pigeonholed into Christian romance because that seemed to go nowhere when the author first tried. I don't want to fail or at least not fail completely.
Romance? Fantasy? Knowing that there is an occasional swear word and no references to Biblical scriptures I don't think a Christian romance publisher would take it, especially since some novels in the series approach other topics that those publishers don't want in their books.
So, those are my four questions/areas of concern. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you have a link to a specific publisher or agent that would also be incredibly helpful.
Thank you.
Cat