I Got An Agent for My Third Novel!

Years ago, a fellow writer told me that writing is hard, but getting an agent is even harder.  With a full-time teaching job, my previous two novels, Deadly Sacrifices – A Marguerite “Monty” Montez Mystery, and Bridles of Poseidon: The Last Emissary Series took years and years to write. Deadly Sacrifices won a FWA Royal Palm Literary Award (unpublished mystery) and Bridles of Poseidon was a finalist for that same award in the fantasy genre. For many years after their completion, I pitched them to numerous agents and never found one to represent either work–so I self-pubbed them on Amazon. But I’ve always sought an agent to better promote my works to publishers and to broaden the audience for my novels.

I dabbled on and off on my third novel, Babeless Babes, about three women friends without children entering their forties. After several spurts of writing it, I finally focused on it and got it completed in a little over a year–my fastest novel writing project so far. I’m so excited that Babeless Babes has found a wonderful literary agent, Kelli Martin, at Wendy Sherman Associates, Inc., a boutique New York literary agency. After my initial e-mail query with the first five pages, Kelli got right back to me and asked for the next 30 pages, then the full novel. She loved it and we spoke on the phone for over an hour about her enthusiasm for the novel and she offered to represent me and the novel.  I couldn’t believe how fast the process went–starting with the initial e-mail in August and then finalizing the agency agreement in October. It seems practically overnight considering the years of trying to find a literary agent for my prior novels.

Maybe it’s just the right book at the right time for the market. I’m happily working on some revisions with Kelli’s guidance as we prepare for the book to be pitched to publishers. Keep your fingers crossed that with Babeless Babes–the third time is the charm!!