When to Fire Your Literary Agent
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ส.ค. 2024
- What happens when you land an agent but it's not going how you hoped? Here's when you should fire your agent, and how to do it. Visit us at thebookdoctors.com. SUBSCRIBE: goo.gl/9VaE9C.
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WHAT WE COVER IN THIS VIDEO
🔥 Top reasons authors fire their agents:
0:50 Lack of response from the agent
1:40 Disagreement editorially about the manuscript
1:45 Contract issues
2:00 Financial irregularities
2:13 If they say mean things about you behind your back
2:21 Lack of transparency about the publishers to whom the agent has sent the manuscript
🔥 3:00 How to handle lack of communication with effective follow ups, plus when and how to fire your agent
🔥 4:15 An agent should be your advocate; if they're not, it's time to leave
🔥 4:24 How to handle the fear of NOT having an agent again
🔥 4:50 How to follow up with an agent before you fire them with examples of wording you could use
🔥 6:37 Why the author needs to know the editor and the publishing house to whom the agent is submitting the manuscript, including that person's response
🔥 7:45 If your agent can't provide the list, report them to the Association of Authors' Representatives at aaronline.org
🔥 9:20 What if you're not getting your checks for your royalties from the agent?
🔥 10:40 If you don't know how to read a contract, have a professional review it.
🔥 11:27 What to do after you fire your agent and what NOT to do
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LOL! Lying to your earhole. Fantastic line. :)
Ha! Thank you!
Just started watching your channel. I am a huuuuge proponent of self-publishing. I don't like the idea of the author-agent dynamic. And I love self-publishing. Thanks for your videos, I'm eating them up!
Thanks so much! Really appreciate the feedback.
What wonderful advice, guys! Thanks to you both, and David I'm so proud of you for standing up to that agency and exposing them. You're both heroes!
Thx so much! It's a crazy world out there!
Great advice! #RelationshipGoals
Thank you!
I'm a member of the Author's Guild now, if I'm ever lucky enough to get an agent or contract, they will look it over at least. Thankfully my little GA book sold enough to get in. Love that photo by the way, Arielle, wow.
That's great, Amy! We are rooting for you!!!
@@TheBookDoctors Thank you and I know you are. Owe you a lot from your first phone call that got me into this, just hope to have something to prove you right someday.
So, do you recommend that writers hold off on mentioning that they were previously represented by an agent when they query new agents? I’m currently in this situation and I never really know what the proper etiquette is regarding past agents/new agents. Do they want to know up front, or is that TMI for a query? Does it create bias, ie, suggest someone saw value in your work... or rather that you’re difficult to work with? How do you recommend approaching potential new agents with this history?
We would do the initial approach without saying. If they are interested, tell them at that point.
It would be great if I could find a lit agent so I can have the chance to get rid of them, lol
Hilarious!