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Discovering Literary Agents

Posted by Mark Shaw on February 22, 2010

Every aspiring author should strongly consider securing a competent literary agent to assist he or she’s efforts to locate a good publisher for their book. Good sources of information include http://www.publisherslunch.com, the AAR website, and a free media newsletter called mediabistro.com. Here’s one posting from the latter of interest:

Pitching An Agent: The Irene Goodman Literary Agency

Score representation at this shop with a marketable narrative for fiction or non

By M. David Hornbuckle – February 22, 2010

Number of agents: Four. They also have a very active and successful foreign rights agent and a movie agent in L.A.
Number of clients: More than 100.
Notable clients: Linda Lael Miller, Boyd Morrison, Keri Arthur, Karen Chance, Larissa Ione, Susan Donovan, Celeste Bradley, Lilith Saintcrow, Lauren Destefano. Amount of unsolicited material selected: About 5 percent a year
Fiction vs. nonfiction: Approximately 60 percent fiction, 40 percent nonfiction

Background: Irene Goodman got the agent bug more than 25 years ago after first breaking through as an editorial assistant at a publishing house. It was while later working at a small, but powerful agency (they represented Stephen King at the time) that she began taking on some of the clients the primary agent didn’t have time for. Within a year, the former medieval studies major was in business for herself . . .

Researching agents is a necessary evil toward realizing publishing dreams. So get busy hemingwaywantabes. A good agent is right around the corner.

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