JOANNA ELM, Author, Journalist, Attorney
The Pleasures and Perils Of A Writing Life
If you google the phrase “how to get literary agent,” you will find at least 20 Google pages of results. The accumulated information comes from writers’ websites, writers’ magazines, from bloggers, from literary agents themselves, from editors eager to polish up your manuscript before you submit to an agent and from authors — like myself — who have found an agent. Continue reading “How To Survive Your Search For A Literary Agent”
You’ve finally typed “The End” on the fifth, seventh, tenth draft of your manuscript. It’s as good as you can make it. Now what? As most writers know, finding a literary agent is the necessary first step to getting a novel published traditionally. But finding an agent is as difficult, if not more so, than finding a publisher — as any literary agent will tell you.
This week, Mandi Bean, an author I met at the Algonkian Author-Mentor workshop earlier this year, contributes this guest post describing in superb detail exactly how she found four literary agents to ask for and read her full manuscript — and what she learned from the torturous process: Continue reading “Why Literary Agents Asked For – Then Rejected – My Novel : One Author’s Story”