"The Call" - When a literary agent wants to talk to you!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Jessica and Sara discuss their own experiences with a combined six calls from literary agents, plus plenty of advice on how to handle "the call" when an agent requests to talk to you!
Links mentioned in our show today:
-Questions for the call from Alexa Donne (TH-cam video) - • Questions for THE CALL...
-List of questions from Alexa Donne's website - alexadonne.com/...
-Susan Dennard's blog post on "the call" + what to do if you get multiple offers - letthewordsflo...
-Maria Vicente on what an agent may ask you - www.mariavicen...
-absolutewrite.... NOTE: as of 6/8/2021 this site is being redesigned and is currently down; check absolutewrite.com for updates as for when it will be back up
-Writer Beware - www.sfwa.org/o...
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Wonderful video. This should be shared more widely
Thank you 💚
This is amazing! You two are so insightful and have great conversation chemistry as well! Thank you so much for this
Thank you Camryn!
Really informative and much appreciated. Thank you both!
This was such a great video! I learned so much and it helped calm me down and prepare me better for the call if it ever happens!
So glad it helped you!!
Helping my wife to prepare. Thanks for the video.
Congrads, I have been unable to get an agent even to accept my quiry letter?
Hello. Getting ready to start submitting book number 6 next year. I had the call once, on my first book, only to get the R and R request, which was subsequently rejected. Hurts but I’m ready to set right back in the wagon
HIii! I've seen lots of videos about the call, but none about what happens next (as in, right away) how does signing the contract go about? Do they send you the physical papers and then you send it back? When is it official official? Thank you so much!
Hey Carolina, thanks for watching our show! And thank you for the question. I have written it down so we can talk about this in a future episode 🥰 -Jess
OK, so we will totally answer this in an episode, too, but I'm realizing it might be a while before that's posted, so.... After I had my 1st call, I notified all the agents who had my full, partial, AND just a query. I ended up getting a bunch more requests (including some from agents who only had my query). I ended up getting 2 more offers that same week & doing calls with those agents as well. In the meantime, I requested a sample of the contract to be sent to me, as well as references, for each agent. I looked at all of these/talked to their clients they provided as references. THEN, I made my decision (well, it was really obvious as soon as I got on the phone w/ the agent I signed with), notified her I was accepting her offer, notified the agents who had offered I was turning down that I appreciated the offer but went with someone else. My agent then sent a contact over the same day. I read it, had someone else in the biz read it, signed it (we used on-line signing software). My agent is super fast, so I had notes from her within a few days (but a few weeks or even a month or two is normal), and we had a phone call soon after to go over them in depth. Then I started revising! Let me know if you have anymore questions on this!