How to Find the Right Book Agent for You
Agents are a good and necessary thing if you plan to make your living writing books, screenplays, TV series or other major formats. They enable you to write while they go out and try to sell your work to the right people at the highest price and the most favorable terms. Virtually all literary agents are book agents or agents for book-length manuscripts such as movie or television scripts. Very few represent short stories, articles, poetry, greeting cards or essays. Start your agent search only after you've got that first book either completed or to the point that you can write a winning book proposal that includes sample chapters. Never submit anything less than your best work to an agent. Most surveys indicate that literary agents reject 98 percent of everything they receive. Although they are hard to get, a literary agent is becoming increasingly necessary for those wishing to sell to large publishing firms, who often will not consider unagented manuscripts. So your first job will be to identify a large group of agents who specialize in your subject matter.
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