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- Jim McCarthy interned for Dystel, Goderich & Bourret while studying urban design at New York University. Upon graduating, Jim realized he would much rather continue working with books than make the jump (as he had originally intended) to the field of city planning. Eighteen years later, he remains at DG &B as a VP and agent. As an avid fiction reader, his interests encompass both literary and commercial works in the adult, young adult, and middle grade categories. He is particularly interested in literary fiction, underrepresented voices, fantasy, mysteries, romance, anything unusual or unexpected, and any book that makes him cry or laugh out loud. In addition to fiction he is also interested in narrative nonfiction whether it be memoir, historical, science, pop culture, or just a darn good polemic.
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I just submitted a manuscript to Mr. McCarthy. Finger's crossed. It's a crazy time where I can discover an agent online, see videos of him in conversation, and see that they seem like a very decent human. Keep up what you're doing on this channel. It's quality stuff.
HI. Did you get it?
I submitted to Jim. His rejection hurt but i still adore him as a lit agent.
Okay, you give five person a year, so we need 100 literary agents to have 500 people a year.
It would be a dream come true to sign with this guru.
Really? But aren't you employing him?
@@blackstter6317 He said no, within the same day, too! lol
Given the number of rejection slips that even the most successful authors amass, it's a wonder that aspiring authors even bother with the agent/publisher charade. Publishing is broken. Agents and publishers are like gold miners who complain how hard it is to discover new nuggets when there is a thick golden seam running right under their house.
How much five persons a year made net income together?
So as a writer you have a 0.0007% chance (on average) of being signed up by this agent. I think the National Lottery has better odds. And even then, there is no guarantee of success. I mean, what is the point?
It's definitely daunting. Worth taking a shot, but I wouldn't plan to succeed or fail around any one agent. I still love to hear the perspectives of awesome book people.
@@Bannekerbones Succeed or fail around one agent? I have sent out over 30 queries and have received either polite boilerplate rejections after weeks of waiting, or been ghosted. Those replies I have received have always required me to pay money in some way for very vague publishing arrangements. It seems to me that the only way to get traditionally published in the UK is to be either a minor celebrity or a recovering failed pop act. There is no point for a standard, debut writer. Publishing is dying on its feet, and it's the agents and publishers arrogance that is killing it.
@@blackstter6317Amigo, I feel your pain! The supply/demand ratio is so far out of whack that the odds cannot be in the author’s favor, no matter how talented you are. I have hundreds of rejections and only some short stories published. One of my books got pirated after I gave up and self published. It got over 1100 ratings for an average of 4.65. Every rejection letter for that book was a form letter. So I understand…but…if we don’t keep submitting then our chances are absolutely ZERO. Good luck, and may God bless you and yours.
Update: I queried about 120 agents since I posted this comment. Now I have an agent.