Discovering Literary Agents
Posted by Mark Shaw on February 22, 2010
Every aspiring author should strongly consider securing a competent literary agent to assist he or she’s efforts to locate a good publisher for their book. Good sources of information include www.publisherslunch.com, the AAR website, and a free media newsletter called mediabistro.com. Here’s one posting from the latter of interest:
Pitching An Agent: The Irene Goodman Literary Agency
Score representation at this shop with a marketable narrative for fiction or non
By M. David Hornbuckle – February 22, 2010
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Number of agents: Four. They also have a very active and successful foreign rights agent and a movie agent in L.A. Background: Irene Goodman got the agent bug more than 25 years ago after first breaking through as an editorial assistant at a publishing house. It was while later working at a small, but powerful agency (they represented Stephen King at the time) that she began taking on some of the clients the primary agent didn’t have time for. Within a year, the former medieval studies major was in business for herself . . . Researching agents is a necessary evil toward realizing publishing dreams. So get busy hemingwaywantabes. A good agent is right around the corner. |
