How Agents Choose Which Editors to Submit To
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ส.ค. 2021
- Much like a querying author choosing agents to queries, literary agents have some big decisions to make when deciding who to send their clients books to. In this video, Jessica Faust and James McGowan break down how they decide who to send a book to.
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Jessica Faust’s love for books is what first brought her to open BookEnds Literary Agency. It is her desire to be an advocate for all authors that pushed her to create her blog, the BookEnds TH-cam channel and to maintain a vibrant presence on Twitter.
Jessica is proud to have grown BookEnds to an agency that represents authors of all genres for children and adults, allowing her to reach more readers and help more authors and illustrators achieve their dreams.
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Since interning at BookEnds as an undergrad in the summer of 2015, James has (basically) never left. He's just continuously level-up-ed inside of BookEnds. Now he is the Literary Assistant and Social Media Manager for the team. He’s been a reader since his mom gave him the first A Series of Unfortunate Events book and ordered the sequels regularly through Scholastic book orders.
James is currently growing his own list and is actively seeking submissions in adult literary and upmarket fiction, mystery, thrillers, and suspense. He is also actively building his picture book list.
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As always Jessica and James present the smallest of details that are often overlooked with hidden activities that an author rarely gets to see. Thank you again for offering us insights into this industry to help us reach our own goals.
I am in awe of both of you.
Hi, thanks for this. I have just finished editing my first book. I now am studying the querying process so I can put my best foot forward. It’s scary to me to be at this stage. I think the whole writing experience has been an interesting and fun accomplishment. I know i will be submitting to your agency and am looking over the agents that will be best suited for my adult thriller. I hope to be able to use the steps you outlined here. I am anxious to start my next book as it’s been driving me crazy. Thank you for your many helpful videos!
This is what I really wanted to understand. The publishing houses are a big mystery to me. Thanks!
These videos are incredible. More importantly, the agents seems so approachable, professional, knowledgable and clearly have a great working relationship. You guys paint your agency in such a great light. Wish we had something similar in uk from a uk agency
Wow, thank you!
All of your videos are beyond helpful. Thank you.😊
As always, great stuff! It really helps to know how the business works.
Delighted to be your 100th like! You deserve many more for these insightful videos.
Thanks for another informative video!
Unrelated, what are the chances of getting a positive response to a query for a 149k debut manuscript? I know that's well outside industry standard; is it simply less likely to receive a request for a partial or a full, but still worth trying, or is it so unlikely as to not be worth trying at all?
Yeah, sounds good, but how do you know you have an agent that on top of it?
Hi James, do children's books agents ever take on a one story deal?
The last point you guys made seems different than the previous ones: a new editor is not going to have the same fire power (or clout at an acquisition meeting), right? Probably even smaller budget
Where can you get a opinion about your query letter?