How To Submit A Manuscript To An Agent
How to Research Literary Yiwu Agent
Author: Herry Liu
Writers must decide whether to market their work directly to publishers or attempt to find an agent. It is usually wise to market your work to yiwu agent first, because they have access to publishing companies who only accept agented submissions. Before sending that query letter, however, it is important that you do your homework.
Research yiwu agent who represent your genre. Two good resource books are Jeff Herman's Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary yiwu agent and Writer's Market. The website, agentquery.com, has over thirty pages of yiwu agent for fiction and non-fiction with their profiles.
Check the credibility of an agent you select. Other helpful sites are Writer Beware, Representatives,yiwu agent should always be checked out regardless of the reliability of your source. I found an agent's name and address in one of the leading writing magazines and sent my marketing package. When I received a letter requesting my entire manuscript, I decided to check Preditors and Editors and found a warning beside the agency's name (not recommended). Below the agency's web site, under caveat scrivener, there were chats between writers in regard to problems with the agency. Needless to say, I didn't send my manuscript.
Understand that an agent's rejection percentage of submissions is 90%. The reason is simple logic. They must feel confident that they will be able to successfully market your work to publishers. They cannot make their 15% if they are unable to sell your manuscript. The other statistic that impacts their decision is the quantity of submissions. One agent stated that he often receives over fifty letters a day but could only add fifteen new clients every year. I quote these odds not to discourage you from attempting to find an agent but to help you gain perspective and not take rejection letters (particularly the form letter type) personally.
As soon as a newly licensed agent becomes associated with a real estate brokerage and joins the Multiple Listing Service, she has hundreds of listings she can sell. She can make appointments through the listing yiwu agent to show their houses. This is a great backup while she is working on listing her own properties.
One of the first things a new agent should work on is putting together a great listing presentation to show to people who are thinking of selling property. The listing presentation shows what the agent will do to make sure the property is sold within a reasonable amount of time. That time frame depends on market conditions. The agent wants to convince the seller that she is an expert in her field, and if she's new, she can use the expertise of the company she is associated with. The listing presentation should be used on anyone who calls and wants to sell his property and on “For Sale by Owner” sellers.
To sell property, the agent must establish an inventory. If an agent uses only the MLS, buyers will question her ability as an agent because she doesn't have her own inventory.
Every real estate agent relies heavily on advertising the properties they have listed to get them sold. However, the most successful real estate yiwu agent market themselves more than they market the properties. If an agent gets the public to recognize his name or picture, people will already believe he is successful, and they will come to him. A good agent will constantly be learning about his market and new real estate laws and guidelines, fast becoming an expert in the field.
This is a highly competitive field, and yiwu agent must distinguish themselves among other yiwu agent. To do this, yiwu agent should market themselves with business cards and postcards with their pictures on them. Another tool many successful real estate yiwu agent use is establishing a quote or saying that people will remember them by. Marketing listings in real estate magazines, newspapers and postcards is an important function to get properties sold. Many yiwu agent will join organizations and put the organization's name on their signs.
Special listings require special marketing, such as a custom sign or full-page ad. Yiwu agent do this to get the property sold, but they really want others who can't buy that property to remember their names. Selling property means yiwu agent need the buyers to come to them, even if the don't personally have the property they want listed.
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How can I find an agent to submit my manuscript to a publishing company?
I have a beautiful (novel) Love story manuscript and they said I need a agent to submit it to be publishing Company. Please me. . . Kimberly D. don’t answer this please
I found this excerpt from “Finding an Agent” by Judith Bowen on absolutewrite.com.
Check out books in the library that list literary agents. See if they are members of reputable professional organizations. Go to writers’ conferences. Talk to other published authors. Gradually put together your own short list and send out query letters describing your manuscript–the fact that yours is completed is a plus– starting with the first agent on your list and working your way down. Chances are, none of them will take you on.
Don’t give up. Get out there and sell your manuscript to a publisher. Contrary to what you might have imagined – that it’s the agent’s job to sell your book – the truth is, your book is going to have to sell itself, whether you send it out or an agent does. Then, when you’re offered that contract, contact your short list of agents again, starting at the top, and mention you’ve got a contract to negotiate and you’ll be pretty pleased to find that the response will be quite different. Maybe your first choice or your second still won’t be interested, but your third or fourth will. If you’ve done your research, he or she will still be a fine agent with a good reputation.
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Here are “Seven Essential Points on Literary Agents”:
http://www.book-editing.com/nagle1.htm
Another good idea for looking for an agent is to read books similar to the ones you want to publish. See if there’s any way you can find out who their agent was. It’s best to know who else the agent has represented, especially when querying. It lets them know you’ve done your research.
Once you’ve done that research, check out if the agent is listed here:
Here is a link to a list of literary agents, but it’s alphabetical, not by genre – but this is from a reputable group that looks out for a writer’s best interest:
http://www.anotherealm.com/prededitors/peala.htm
Just note that before you consider e-mailing the work to an agent, you should review the submissions guidelines that should be posted on the agency’s website. If the accept e-mailed submissions, go for it. Just make sure that that electronic file of your manuscript contains no fancy fonts (Times New Roman is the best option) and double spaced (more space for edits). But double-check the guidelines before you do anything. For an agent, if you can’t make the effort to find out what his/her agency’s submissions guidelines are, it may seem that you’re not quite as serious about being published than you actually are.
How do i find an agent for a starting novel writer?
I am getting outstandingly close to being done with my novel. And every legit company that i want to submit my manuscript to, says that my agent needs to contact them first. The problem with this is that i don’t have an agent. How do i find one!
First you make sure your manuscript is really ready for submission. Have some friends or mentors read through it, put it away for a few weeks and look it over with fresh eyes. If you query an agent and your work is not accepted, you probably won’t have the opportunity to query the same work to him or her again with revisions. So make sure it’s as perfect as it can possibly be before it goes into the mail.
Then decide what genre your novel falls into.
Get a copy of Writer’s Market and research some agents who deal with that genre. You’ll also find information on how they prefer to be queried – some accept electronic queries, some do not, some are picky about margins, some are not, etc.
The poster above me gave you some excellent resources on where you can find example query letters.
(From this point on in your publication process, you should call it a manuscript, not a novel 🙂
Good luck!
How do I prepare my manuscript when submitting it to an agent?
BTW, it’s a novel …
Before you even think about submitting to agents, finish the book and edit it at least a couple of times. No agent is interested in something he can’t sell – or can’t sell yet. If he agreed to represent you on the basis of an unfinished manuscript, he has no way of knowing how long it’ll take you to finish the book – or whether you’ll finish it at all.
There are far more people writing books than the public are willing to support – or willing to support to the extent that some authors can make a living from writing alone, anyway. Agents receive about a hundred manuscripts for every one they decide to represent. This means they can afford to be very picky about who they accept as clients. Given the choice between a brilliant and complete manuscript that he can start selling today, and a half a brilliant manuscript that he might be able to start selling in six months or a year, no one but a fool would take the latter.
EDIT: Yeah, if you’re already published, and you have a proven track record of sales, and you’ve known your agent for some time, you can say to him, “Here’s something I bashed out over the weekend. I think it might be the first few chapters of my next book,” and he’ll put aside what he’s doing, and read it, and tell you whether he thinks you should carry on with it. But if you were at that stage, you wouldn’t need to be asking questions like this on Yahoo! Answers.
Depends.
A good agent will submit the manuscript to 1) houses which deal in the kind of book being shopped, and where there are editors with a interest in the type of thing being offered, and 2) houses where the agent has good contacts. But after that, the agent will submit it to any place left halfway appropriate.
Publishing houses absolutely care which agent submits. It doesn’t mean a lesser known agent won’t get something read (and it is always better to have the ms submitted by an agent rather than cold) but the better known the agent by the editor/publishing house, the more consideration the book will get.
How Do Literary Agents Decide Which Publisher to Solicit to?
Assuming an author has a literary agent and a completed manuscript, how does the agent decide which publishers he/she will submit the manuscript to? Also – one more question, if that’s okay – do the major publishers “care” which agent submits to them – i.e. do you have to have/be a “known” agent? Thanks.
my manuscript is not finished, is it okay to start submitting to agents?
I am not finished with my manuscript, but I have it outlined so I know how it will end. I just don’t know the word count. The only thing I cannot tell an agent is the word count but I was told it is not good to mention in a synopsis or query that your work is not completed. Can someone help?