Literary Agent Advice?
Posted: 05 July 2009 07:56 PM   [ Ignore ]
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Well, I’ve just finished my second story and I’m renewing my efforts to get the things published. Dunno how good they actually are, but that’s a different problem entirely…

Anyway, I decided that I’m going to try to get a literary agent since that seems to be the best way to get stuff published. You guys all seem very accomplished, so I was wondering if you had any advice on this venture. Thus far, I’ve been looking into agents via the internet. The first one I tried to e-mail (as per their instructions) and got a “Sorry, your e-mail couldn’t reach the destination” response a few days later. The second one I looked into was nixed as my first story was about 10,000 words shorter than their requirement for Juvenile Fiction.

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Posted: 05 July 2009 08:57 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Sharruma might be the person here to get some advice from regarding fiction works.

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Posted: 06 July 2009 12:35 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Accipiter - 05 July 2009 08:57 PM

Sharruma might be the person here to get some advice from regarding fiction works.

That is certainly whom I would try and get in contact with. smile

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Posted: 06 July 2009 03:45 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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I think Shar ended up getting his book self-published.  He didn’t have much joy sending the manuscripts off to various publishers.

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Posted: 06 July 2009 05:06 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Ah, okay. Thanks!

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~Dave Barry

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