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Top 10 YA Agents: 72 Deals
The Publisher’s Marketplace ranks these agents as the top YA agents for the last 12 months. As always, when you look at statistics from Publisher’s Marketplace Dealmakers, remember that these deals are self-reported; there may be other agents who sell more, but don’t participate here, or some agents who–for some odd reason–don’t report a certain…
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20 Agents: 119 Picture Book Sales
Brenda Sturgis reports on the top literary agents for selling picture books in this recent post. Let’s talk about this report. Top Literary Agents for Picture Books Self Reported Statistics. The statistics for Sturgis’s report was compiled from reported sales on Publisher’s Marketplace. This is a big caution because
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Agent Wants Plot
Agent Emphasizes Need for Plot The Guide to Literary Agents blog has a new agent interview with Kristin Nelson, who writes the PubRants blog. Since we’re talking about plotting a novel, this remark jumped out at me. When GLA asked what what she’s looking for right now, Nelson said: KN: I’d love to see more…
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Test Submissions
Submit, Then Revise At our spring conference, Jen Rofe, literary agent at Andrea Brown Literary spoke about sending out manuscripts. The one thing that surprised me was her attitude toward submission and revision. Rofe said she usually sends out a mss to about five editors. Then, depending on the feedback, she’ll often ask the writer…
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Pitch
3 Reminders About Pitching Your Mss to an Editor or Agent At our conference this weekend, we have an editor and an agent attending and for the first time, we’re doing pitch sessions. Always before, we’ve done a manuscript critique, sending in 10 pages a month before. So, I’ve been going over some recommendations for…