How to Talk to Agents

I'm going to let a couple of my clients talk today instead of me: Vicky Dreiling and Amy Christine Parker.  As Vicky will tell you in her "How I Got My Agent" post, she and I met several years ago at a conference – not at a pitch session, but at a meal after the conference was over, during which I asked her about her work, fell in love with her tagline, asked to see her partial, fell in love with that, requested the rest, harassed her for it when we passed each other on escalators at a subsequent conference….  Well, heck, I'll let her tell it.  Amy Christine Parker and I have a somewhat similar story.  She and I met when I spoke with her local writer's group and ended up keeping in touch.  When she sent me her YA novel set within a cult…well, I fell hard.  Here she gives some very good advice on how to talk to agents.  I present these because I think they illustrate some very wonderful points that every aspiring writer who wonders how to approach editors and agents at conferences, etc., should hear.  Enjoy!