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As I do the final edit on my fiction manuscript, I'd love some advice on finding an agent to work with. I'm seeking a traditional publisher, likely a smaller imprint that focuses on futuristic fiction with an eco-green overlay.
I've been writing professionally for twenty years. After publication in a slew of magazines (feature stories), and several anthologies (fiction and non-fiction), I'm excited about completing and marketing my first full-length work. These shorter works have not required an agent and I negotiated my own contracts.
Now with print, electronic, movie, foreign and other rights to consider, I recognize the importance of working with a knowledgeable agent.
Other than Writer's Market, do you have recommendations on how to locate and contact an agent who works in my genre?
Dang, I guess y'all are the wrong folks to ask about gettin' an agent. I spent a year in equatorial W. Africa, in camp we had an expression "Nigerian Normal" it translate out as "in your wildest dreams you would never guess what happened to me today!!" I'm on chapter two and looking for an agent to work with. In one year I had to deal with 5 types of Cobra, 2 of Mamba, Elephants, Hippos, Crocodiles, Leopard, Rock Python, and Boas, not counting the Ikbo Masquerade and Pygmies. I suspect most people have some sort of notion about the workings of animism, the notion that EVERYTHING has a spirit and is capable of free will. Animism was the law of the land. It is interesting to note all of the things that could, and often did, happen in a normal day. Uhhhhh, Anybody know an agent? This is not a work of fiction, in W. Africa things were strange enough that fiction is superfluous.
Last edited by Dusty Rhodes; 02-21-2011 at 09:10 PM..
Writer's Market, for me, is still the best available resource other than detailed inside information.
The only two suggestions I can make are to (1) already know, or develop a relationship with, a published writer who will introduce you to his/her agent, or (2) go to your local bookstore and do some personal research into which publishing houses do the most work in the area of your novel, then see if you can determine which agents they may recommend.
BTW, don't hold your breath on achieving Option Two.
My "entry" was Option One. I'm still unpublished, but at least I do have a danged good agent who knows his (in this case, her) stuff and is willing to receive/review my material.
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