Before
going into how to find a literary agent, first let us understand the work of
literary agent. The literary agents are the representatives of the writers.
They arrange and negotiate the writer’s deal with the publishing house. In
return a certain percentage in advance from the payment that author gets. Literary
agent gets the author’s manuscript to different editors and publishers and
makes sure the authors work is published. These agents are well known in the
business with the editors and publishers therefore, they can easily get hand
over a good editor to get the book published. Therefore, they play a very vital
role in writer’s career.
If
you are in search of one such literary agent, you must know that it is not that
easy to get your hand on a good literary agent. It might happen that they might
not want to sell your writing. These agents are also in search of authors whose
work is known prior, and their books sell. There are different kind of agents
who are interested in specific kind of manuscripts, you must understand it and
find an agent for you accordingly.
The
very first thing that you must realize your place in the writing world, if you
are not a celebrity or very well known, you will require to have a fully compete,
proof read and polished script, depending on what you are writing, memoir or
novel. You must also have good proposal and pilot or sample pages if you are writing
on nonfiction story line. You need to prove yourself very consistent and
polished again.
So
after reading the above paragraph, you must have definitely polished your work
like a shining new book. When you are completed and confident about the
quality, now you can search for a literary agent. But before that the most
important thing you must do it understand the working of publishing business. Many
budding authors think that a good quality or interesting book is enough to get
your book published, and start minting money. But it is not true. Before you go
on board, on your search for literary agent, you need to spend a lot of time, I
mean many more hours to understanding you and the business, editors, literary
agents, and anything that is concerned with the writing worked and its working
pattern.
Due
to modern times, you are lucky enough to get all this information on internet. You
will get all the detailed information on how to go about it on internet. In
recent times, just writing a good book is not enough, you need to understand
that this a business along with passion. You just cannot work in four closed
walls of your home. You need to get out, make links, write blogs and read
blogs, go to conferences, and know other authors. If you are known even little
in the writing market your chance of getting a good literary agent increases. So
in short along with writing good quality work, you need to be known socially.
In
order to find literary agents you can try many ways. Recommendations are very
crucial in the literary agent hunt. If you want to hire a more experienced and
well known agent, recommendation is essential. If you are in connection with
someone, whom these agents admire, they will consider your work with more
attention. So recommendation does make a difference.
Now
the question is how to get a recommendation, well it is more of a work of art. First
thing you can do is joint any writing community groups. This will expose you to
many other writers and their connections. You need to be good in communication
and try to put yourself well, which will make you look like an established
writer.
Therefore,
along with good quality work, you must invest your times in creating an
audience for yourself to get attention of a legendary literary writer.
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