Archive for the ‘Approaching Agents and Publishers’ Category

Litmatch Putting Authors and Literary Agents Together.

Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by John Barnett

Quick post.
Just got an email from a writer friend of mine who has told me that the LitMatch Site has been upgraded.
I haven’t checked out LitMatch for a while so if you want to have a look, here’s their web address below.
LitMatch Website
Popularity: 11% [?]

Popularity: 11% [?]

Agents who take Crime Writing Submissions.

Posted on April 9th, 2008 by John Barnett

In my opinion, one of the best Agents in the UK for budding crime fiction authors is the Darley Anderson  Film and Literary Agency.
Here is their address:
Submissions Department
Darley Anderson Agency
Estelle House
11 Eustace Road
London
SW6 1JB

Here is the web address
Darley Anderson Agency
Popularity: 11% [?]

Popularity: 11% [?]

Dealing with rejection

Posted on April 6th, 2008 by John Barnett

Found an old post that those of you have got to the stage of submitting your manuscript to an agent or publisher might find interesting. It deals with writers reactions to rejection letters.
There are a lot of comments to this post but one I found very useful was that if you are angry at a rejrection, you should […]

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So your baby (manuscript is finally ready to send to your chosen agent or publisher. You take  it to the Post Office, you’ve remembered the SSAE, the covering letter and synopsis are enclosed. Everything is as good as you can get it. You wave good-bye to it as it wings its way to their offices […]

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It’s the old catch22 situation. Most large publishers won’t touch a manuscript for a new author and agents won’t touch an unpublished author. How do we as budding crime authors get noticed by the powers that be?
The above srtatement is not strictly true. Agents are always looking for the next JK Rowling or Ruth rendell, […]

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