Digg it!5. Merrilee Heifetz
Writers House
21 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10010
http://www.writershouse.com/
4. Jaimee Garbacik
The Literary Group International
51 E. 25th St., Ste. 401
New York, NY 10010
http://www.theliterarygroup.com
3. Janet Reid
FinePrint Literary Management
240 West 35th Street #500
New York, NY 10001
http://www.fineprintlit.com/
janet@fineprintlit.com
2. Diana Fox
Fox Literary
168 Second Avenue, PMB 180
New York, NY 10003
http://foxliterary.com/
submissions@foxliterary.com
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Lynn, do please feel free to degsarie with me at any stage I’m always happy to hear from you.I wonder if what we’re seeing here is the difference between the UK market and the USA one. Here, there are not nearly as many of the smaller publishers as there are in the USA; and many of those smaller publishers are only just slipping into view, as far as many agents are concerned (in fact, just today I read an article which discussed this I’ll look for a link). I didn’t mean to suggest that agents aren’t passionate about their clients’ work: most of the agents I’ve met care very deeply about their clients, and are disappointed and sometimes hurt if they fail to make a sale. But they won’t publish at any price, and they will only submit to publishers which they feel would do well for the books concerned. Over the last couple of months I’ve been in contact with a good handful of writers who have had found themselves good agents, but then their books have not sold. Have those writers spoken to their agents about why this might be? No. Not one of them. They were all too nervous to do so. Two of them ended up self-publishing their books and another turned to vanity-publishing; none of them have made any sort of sales.One, however (and you know who you are!), considered self-publishing, and got some of the way along the road before she thought again, and talked to her agent: who is now submitting her work to more publishers. Let’s hope it turns out well for her. And let’s hope that more writers ask their agents the important questions. Agents are not monsters (that’s my job). Some of them are actually quite nice!
In an earlier post you meonitned PR for published authors. How important do you think PR is for the unpubbed writer? Specifically, do you think there’s value in having a website or a blog before you’re published? Have you ever taken on a client because of something you read on their website or blog? Have any of the editors you submit to ever meonitned that a website or blog has influenced their buy decision?