http://www.sfwa.org/2009/12/hunting-for-a-literary-agent-which-to-keep-and-which-to-shoot/ Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Tue, 21 May 2013 17:46:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.sfwa.org/2009/12/hunting-for-a-literary-agent-which-to-keep-and-which-to-shoot/#comment-2650 Kelly Thompson Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:55:42 +0000 http://www.sfwasite.org/?p=1444#comment-2650 I got my first book Just Kelly published by publishamerica. I wrote my 2nd book and need an agent to help me find the right company to publish it to. I don’t have any money to pay them. What can I do about this?

]]> http://www.sfwa.org/2009/12/hunting-for-a-literary-agent-which-to-keep-and-which-to-shoot/#comment-1789 Dan Shorin Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:15:04 +0000 http://www.sfwasite.org/?p=1444#comment-1789 Chuck, I write in Russian. Are there agents who work with writers whose native language is not English? If so, what method of their work that they accept? I have to search an interpreter to translate the novel into English, I need to search only the interpreter to translate the three chapters, or the publisher itself can translate the text?

]]> http://www.sfwa.org/2009/12/hunting-for-a-literary-agent-which-to-keep-and-which-to-shoot/#comment-1693 Linkee-poo Follow Its Bliss « Genre Bender Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:56:31 +0000 http://www.sfwasite.org/?p=1444#comment-1693 [...] SFWA Journal article by Chuck Rothman on hunting for an agent. He also outlines some reasons why you want an agent and how to find one (just a hint, he goes on [...]

]]> http://www.sfwa.org/2009/12/hunting-for-a-literary-agent-which-to-keep-and-which-to-shoot/#comment-1684 Chuck Rothman Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:29:02 +0000 http://www.sfwasite.org/?p=1444#comment-1684 That’s probably true. The article is several years old, so some of the details have changed as the industry changed. But the general principles are still valid — especially the warning not to pay an agent.

]]> http://www.sfwa.org/2009/12/hunting-for-a-literary-agent-which-to-keep-and-which-to-shoot/#comment-1677 Janet Reid Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:46:00 +0000 http://www.sfwasite.org/?p=1444#comment-1677 Section 6, paragraph two: “Most agents do business by mail, some by email” is actually the reverse. Most agents accept queries by email and many accept queries ONLY by email. Agent websites will be the best source of information on which agents these are.

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