Forum: Literary Agents Forum

I wonder if sometimes I am genre-bound. I write for adults and use all the language and situations that conflict and amuse 30-plus year old people. I...

Has anyone heard about this site? It claims to be a sort of peer review site with the added incentive that if your work is rated high enough, it...

I feel horrible - My full was just rejected and I was really, really hoping for this one! This is my first rejection on a full, so it's disapointing...

It can happen, folks! My agent just emailed me today with the news that Riverhead has accepted my novel (2-book deal, for an embarrassingly colossal...

Does anybody know about this NY-based agency? I'm wondering what their story is. I just read the rejection letter they sent to my dad - I'm wondering...

Any news? As I recall, at the cliffhanger end of the last installment zee zee had a solid offer of rep from a desirable agent, a glamour agent...

Hi, I have an agent who is interested in seeing my full man. She sent me her mailing address this morning as: 16 W. 36 St., 13th fl., NYC...

Barbara Zitwer is clearly one more of so much slime out there. Anyone who looks her up on Google will see that she fancies herself a playwright. ...

What's the scoop on the Barbara J. Zitwer Literary Agency? She's not recommended at P&E but appears to have sold a ton of books to reputable...

Several of us in my writing group sent queries to Barbara Zitwer including one someone made up as a joke with lots of typos. We ALL got back the...

BDL got off easy. She asked me for $995. I wonder if BDL got the same scummy letter I did. BTW, does anyone know if there are authorities we can...

Anyone have any personal experience with either Zoe Pagnamenta or with PDF agency? I've done the usual searches. Pagnamenta was an agent here in the...

Has anyone had any experience with Esmond Harmsworth of the ZSH Literary Agency? He has asked me for the first fifty pages of my manuscript. Ray

Anyone familiar with Zumaya publications? Is this a vanity press?

I was just wondering - what's the average payment for a first book? I mean when the publisher purchases the book, not the royalties.

Humans, be it said, are self-destructive. That is, I believe, amply corroborated by a query which I myself posted, in the fall of 2004, to Gillon...