Agent David Haviland of the Andrew Lownie Lit Agency seeks all genres of fiction, particularly crime, thrillers, and historical fiction.
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Agent MacKenzie Fraser-Bub of Trident Media likes women’s fiction, romance, upmarket commercial fiction, historical fiction, literary fiction, and YA with crossover appeal. In every genre she seeks a good story, well told.
Can Authors Really Get an Agent Through the Slush Pile?
Barbara Poelle of the Irene Goodman Agency recently told Writer’s Digest magazine that
About 60% of my list comes from unsolicited queries.”
Sixty percent is a strong number. Since so many agents these days want only the query letter or a query letter plus a book proposal (the two items authors use to pitch fiction and nonfiction), be sure to hone both those items.
Yes, a query and a book proposal can be the toughest things you’ll ever write…especially if you don’t have a background in publishing, marketing, or the entertainment industry. So take a class. Get feedback from other writers. Do whatever is necessary to make your initial (and possibly your only) contact with an agent stand out from the rest.
Query Letter Workshop Reminder
Here’s a reminder about the upcoming query letter class. The usual rate to write a query letter for a client is $295. Revisions to existing query letters often cost $225, so this workshop is a great bargain!
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Did you know that your query letter is every bit as important as the opening pages of your novel?
It’s your first opportunity to show your writing skills to a prospective agent or editor, and you need to make it count!
 Laine Cunningham’s clients consistently garner attention from the nation’s top publishers and agents.
During this workshop Laine discusses the three important elements to inject into your query so you can get published. Fiction and nonfiction authors writing books, stories or articles will benefit from this class. Location: Center for Excellence, Register TODAY!
Click the link below to register for this awesome class.
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Laine has presented workshops and lectures for The Loft, the nation’s largest independent literary organization; the National Writer’s Union; The Writer’s Workshop in Asheville and writing conferences across the country. If you want to learn how to impress an agent or editor, I will see you there!
Cheers,
Alice Osborn
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Literary Agent
Here’s an agent to consider:
Rachel Hecht serves as Foundry’s Foreign Rights Director for Children’s Books, and also develops her own list of authors. Before joining Foundry in 2011, Rachel served as the children’s book scout for Mary Anne Thompson Associates, where she provided exclusive insight into the US publishing world for a diverse roster of foreign publishers. A graduate of Kenyon College with a degree in English, she began her career in New York at Condé Nast before moving into book publishing.
Ebook Trends
Here’s a literary magazine that has become a publisher of ebooks.
In the past few years, I’ve noticed several kinds of organizations entering the ebook arena. Most notable are the handful of book agents who have opened publishing companies.
This is one of those indicators of how large the shift is in traditional publishing these days. When agents, and some of the nation’s top agents at that, are shifting where they spend their time, nearly anything can happen.
Keep this in mind as you consider whether to approach traditional publishers, self-publish through print and/or ebooks, or do both at once. These days, it pays to play your cards across a wide spectrum.
Book to Film
So many of my clients want to know how to get their books turned into films. There are several pathways for fiction authors.
First is to allow your publisher to set up the deal for you. This is the most common way books are turned into films. However, it’s much more common with the top six publishers. If you’re with a mid-sized or smaller publisher, they might not have the same connections.
Second, you can approach movie agents with a treatment. This means you’re offering the book to publishers and the movie to film agents at the same time. It’s one way to increase your overall changes of success in one or the other field.
Third, you can use your network. A perfect example is in this article about a guy with very little experience who approached a bestselling author. It’s a reversal of how an author would go about approaching directors and producers but it proves the power of persistence!
Agent: Juvenile
Here’s an interview with that most elusive of creatures, an agent who accepts juvenile works…children’s books through young adult.
Writing as a Business
Very good overview article on thinking about your writing career. When the time is right, my clients and I discuss the business aspects of writing. This ranges from our first contact when they’re wondering whether their work is marketable to considering their audience’s needs during editing or rewriting. When the final product is done, we then discuss market trends that will impact their choice of agents and publishers.
Publishing is a business and, as the author, you must consider yourself the CEO of your book. From start to finish—the germ of a book idea to publication (and beyond)—you must take charge. If you make good business decisions, you will surely experience greater success. If not, then, you could be one of the nearly 78 percent of authors who fail.
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