I've queried about twenty five. I can't find anymore who accept the fantasy genre. Well, technically, I could probably find someone who's listing on AgentQuery says they accept fantasy but their ENTIRE client list is all non-fiction and books about hard boiled detectives or something. And if I couldn't even impress the genre agents, I doubt someone who's looking for the next Patricia Cornwell is going to even give my query a glance after they see the words "my 82,000 word fantasy novel".
Of course, if I've missed something (I searched on all the search engines and places I could find - AgentQuery, LitMatch, Publishers Marketplace as well as the Writer's Marketplace) or someone that I should be looking at, I'd love to know. I'm willing to try again, provided I know that something is different.
It just seems to me (like I said to fairmer) that either the novel wasn't good or the market wasn't good. It comes to the same result. I came up to bat, and I did a good job of slicing air and not much else. Whether that was my fault or it was because the market is just horrendous doesn't really matter much in practical terms.
I'm not giving up on writing, I'm giving up on this one novel (well, sort of). I just need to try a different book, a different tack, a different set of agents, a different genre. Maybe I need another five or ten or fifty years to get good as a writer.
I'm not giving up, I'm just conceding that presenting this project in this way is not successful and I need to do something different. Because that's the definition of insanity, you know? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time.
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Of course, if I've missed something (I searched on all the search engines and places I could find - AgentQuery, LitMatch, Publishers Marketplace as well as the Writer's Marketplace) or someone that I should be looking at, I'd love to know. I'm willing to try again, provided I know that something is different.
It just seems to me (like I said to
I'm not giving up on writing, I'm giving up on this one novel (well, sort of). I just need to try a different book, a different tack, a different set of agents, a different genre. Maybe I need another five or ten or fifty years to get good as a writer.
I'm not giving up, I'm just conceding that presenting this project in this way is not successful and I need to do something different. Because that's the definition of insanity, you know? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time.