making connections to the literary world |
Author: Michal Tal (---.red.bezeqint.net)
Date: 08-07-08 04:08
Hi all:
I just had the annoying experience of having several agents I contacted claim that they do not take on clients who don't know someone they know. I've been told by other people that you need some magical contacts in order to be accepted by an agent. I'm finding that this may be true, having gone through most agents on the P & E website for both my previously published histroical novel (which needs republishing but got great reviews in London) and for my new non-fiction pop-culture topic work. It feel like I'm walkiong through glue. Any suggestions form some luckier wirters than I?
Michal ("Mikki")
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Re: making connections to the literary world |
Author: Ce Ce (---.clt.bellsouth.net)
Date: 08-07-08 16:02
Plenty of legitimate agents take on new clients based on the work they see and nothing else. If you're consistently hearing a "I only take referrals" response, it may simply be the latest euphemism for "not interested."
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Re: making connections to the literary world |
Author: Margaret Peirson (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: 08-09-08 14:51
Michal
You might want to go through the Literary Agent Marketbook, there you should find some agents that will take on new clients....there should be a symbol next to their name as accepting new authors...it's worth a try
Agents have to start somewhere and usually I call them green agents who are just starting out in the business and trying to build up their own clientele, and once they've taken on so many clients, then they begin to sort through the ones that will make money for them and get rid of the rest....
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Re: making connections to the literary world |
Author: Nom de Plume (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: 08-09-08 18:25
Head over to agentquery.com and you can use historical fiction (it’s under the pull down genre menu) as a search term. Also, if you check out their social network there is a historical fiction group.
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Re: making connections to the literary world |
Author: Robert Brown (---.hsd1.in.comcast.net)
Date: 08-10-08 12:21
my previously published histroical novel (which needs republishing but got great reviews in London
Probably the main reason you're having a problem with this is that it is extremely difficult to get anyone to take on a previously published anything for reprint, especially one that has been self-published, and seeing you didn't mention a publisher here, I'm assuming that you published it yourself. Publishers go by sales numbers, so if your book didn't do that well, or if your numbers don't show up on Nielsen Bookscan, no matter how many reviews it received, you're not going to get much interest with this. Good luck though.
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