James Rennoldson

Writers' & Artists' Guide to How to Hook an Agent (eBook, ePUB)

Q&A help and advice for authors

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The W&A Guide to How to Hook an Agent is the definitive guide to putting together a manuscript submission and attracting the attention of a literary agent.

Structured around a series of real-life questions raised at Writers' & Artists' successful 'How to Hook an Agent' events, this lively and accessible Q&A guide provides everything an unpublished writer needs to know about seeking the representation of a literary agent. Full of practical detail and examples of good and bad practice, it covers:

· Responses to over 180 questions asked by writers about getting an agent
· How to research and approach an agent
· The key ingredients of a submission
· How to draft a successful covering letter
· What to expect when working with an agent
· The agent-publisher relationship
· Contracts, rights and royalties

This unique guide is suitable for writers of fiction and non-fiction and writing across different genres and age ranges.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472970060
• Artikelnr.: 58634923

Autorenporträt

James Rennoldson has a degree in Journalism and English Literature from the University of Central Lancashire and a MA in Novel Writing from Brunel University. He is the Senior Digital Product Manager for Writers & Artists in which role he has developed and added to the number and success of events and courses that W&A offer to our ever-expanding and loyal community of writers and readers.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: The role of the literary agent What Are Literary
Agents and What Do They Do? Literary Agents and the Publishing Industry The
Author-Agent Relationship: Finding A Literary Agent Part II: The submission
process Is My Manuscript Ready? Submitting a Manuscript The Covering Letter
The Synopsis The Opening Chapters Part III: Following submission In Between
Submissions Dealing with Rejection and Starting Over Offers of
Representation Working with a Literary Agent Contracts, Rights and
Royalties Keep Going Glossary Question Index General Index