Lens · Press & public
Literary Agent
Asks for the full manuscript from one query in a hundred.
Literary Agent
- Who they are
- An agent choosing books they can sell to publishers.
- Decides
- Full request
- Wins them
- A hook at once, and a clear place on the shelf.
- Comparable titles that show the market.
- Loses them
- Synopses that bury the hook, wrong genre for the agent, overlong queries.
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Wants it on the record, exactly right.
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