Queries
When I was an actor in a former life back in The Big Apple, pounding the pavement and wearing out my ear (not to mention my psyche) on the phone and probably the umpteenth actor that the agent had heard from that day, there was an interesting catch 22 which is I suppose is true in any field: you have to have experience to get work and you have to get hired to get experience.
Although I must say that these literary agents are a lot more polite than the show biz agents I chased after in New York, the same catch applies: you've got to have sold well to get an agent and you have to have an agent to sell.
Ah well, when I was tending bar in NYC to scratch out a living, one of my regulars, a Whit McDowell said, "Jan, any job you do there are going to be parts of it you hate, and you've got to do those parts too.
But queries are A LOT OF WORK!
Although I must say that these literary agents are a lot more polite than the show biz agents I chased after in New York, the same catch applies: you've got to have sold well to get an agent and you have to have an agent to sell.
Ah well, when I was tending bar in NYC to scratch out a living, one of my regulars, a Whit McDowell said, "Jan, any job you do there are going to be parts of it you hate, and you've got to do those parts too.
But queries are A LOT OF WORK!
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