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As for the agents, I'm not sure there are anymore. I did as thorough a job of researching as I knew how to do. I checked websites, I checked the Writer's Marketplace books, I checked with friends I know who did managed to get an agent, I read blogs, I did everything I could think of.
If I missed something, please let me know. Obviously, you were successful so you probably do know something I don't.
I just think that the fact that everyone rejected it, even the people who responded positively, means that either a) the novel wasn't good or b) the novel wasn't good for this current market. One is my fault, the other isn't. Both come to the same result as I see it. It means that the novel's got no where to go and as much as I love the novel and am proud of it, if it can't go anywhere, I have to move on. It's not enough to be a writer who just concentrates on one piece.
I want some kind of professional career out of this, which means I have to be able to write more than one novel. I can't let my job be writing this one book. I have to write lots books. Hopefully, one will make it.
I'm still toying with whether or not to submit directly to a publisher. I'm a complete newbie as this, so I'm not sure if I'd know how to deal with editors and the publishing folks professionally and correctly without a go between. I'd like to think I could - but I have no idea what my boundaries and rights and responsibilities as the author would be.
I mean, for instance, let's say that by some miracle some novel of mine did make it to the show and I hated the cover art - do I have any standing to challenge that? Or if I have a disagreement about what the editor wants to change and I don't (or vice versa), how far can I protest? What am I allowed to do and not do.
My reasoning being that an agent is (at least ideally) the author's advocate, and thus knows how mediate these things. I hope.
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Date: 2009-04-22 08:02 pm (UTC)As for the agents, I'm not sure there are anymore. I did as thorough a job of researching as I knew how to do. I checked websites, I checked the Writer's Marketplace books, I checked with friends I know who did managed to get an agent, I read blogs, I did everything I could think of.
If I missed something, please let me know. Obviously, you were successful so you probably do know something I don't.
I just think that the fact that everyone rejected it, even the people who responded positively, means that either a) the novel wasn't good or b) the novel wasn't good for this current market. One is my fault, the other isn't. Both come to the same result as I see it. It means that the novel's got no where to go and as much as I love the novel and am proud of it, if it can't go anywhere, I have to move on. It's not enough to be a writer who just concentrates on one piece.
I want some kind of professional career out of this, which means I have to be able to write more than one novel. I can't let my job be writing this one book. I have to write lots books. Hopefully, one will make it.
I'm still toying with whether or not to submit directly to a publisher. I'm a complete newbie as this, so I'm not sure if I'd know how to deal with editors and the publishing folks professionally and correctly without a go between. I'd like to think I could - but I have no idea what my boundaries and rights and responsibilities as the author would be.
I mean, for instance, let's say that by some miracle some novel of mine did make it to the show and I hated the cover art - do I have any standing to challenge that? Or if I have a disagreement about what the editor wants to change and I don't (or vice versa), how far can I protest? What am I allowed to do and not do.
My reasoning being that an agent is (at least ideally) the author's advocate, and thus knows how mediate these things. I hope.
Of course, what do I know? :)