Who Doesn't Want to be Popular?

 Q: Publishers and agents usually ask you to compare your book to somebody else’s and want to know that you are up to date on what is popular at the moment. How much importance do you place in writing for the market?

 

-from Susan

 

Some agents are more tightly tied to today’s snapshot of what they think will sell to the acquiring editors they are closest to. But if your book is sold to a house, it will take 18 months to get to market anyway, during which the current trend may have changed to someth...