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Topic: Agent Submission Rules
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| tlm | Posted – 9/24/2007 8:45:23 PM | show profile Hey Guys, Can anyone let me the policy on pitching agents? Can I send out multiple pitches or only one at a time? Also, I read that if you do pitch more than one agent at a time you should address this in the pitch. How would I word this without seeming rude or that this particular agency isn't that important to me? Thanks for your responces! |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 9/25/2007 11:35:50 AM | show profile Send out as many pitches at one time as you like, and there's no need to tell agents you are making multiple submissions. |
| stinking prague | Posted – 9/25/2007 11:57:22 AM | show profile You need to write the very best pitch letter you can and then sending out lots of them. Don't worry about personalizing it or any of that crap. The agents know what you're doing. They know the drill better than anyone. Pitching agents is a numbers game. You're going to have to go through large numbers of them. If your letter is good, a lot of them will want to look at it. Don't go giving exclusives unless the person is serious about turning it around within a tight period of time 2-3 weeks max. Even then, you'd be wise to tell em what they want to hear and just send it out. When I was pitching agents I'd email out twenty or thirty a week and always on sunday night. Agents look at pitch letters on monday morning. Any other time of week they're likely to just delete them Also, just cuz they sound interested and want to read it doesn't actually mean dick. You might not look at it for months and then you're dealing with a maddeningly brief attention span. They are usually far more interested in tossing it than falling in love with it. Its a brutal process and not for the faint of heart. The market for non-fiction is tough The market for fiction is absolutely terrible Poetry non-existant. That said, Good luck. hear from them for months. And when |
| stinking prague | Posted – 9/25/2007 11:58:06 AM | show profile You need to write the very best pitch letter you can and then sending out lots of them. Don't worry about personalizing it or any of that crap. The agents know what you're doing. They know the drill better than anyone. Pitching agents is a numbers game. You're going to have to go through large numbers of them. If your letter is good, a lot of them will want to look at it. Don't go giving exclusives unless the person is serious about turning it around within a tight period of time 2-3 weeks max. Even then, you'd be wise to tell em what they want to hear and just send it out. When I was pitching agents I'd email out twenty or thirty a week and always on sunday night. Agents look at pitch letters on monday morning. Any other time of week they're likely to just delete them Also, just cuz they sound interested and want to read it doesn't actually mean dick. You might not look at it for months and then you're dealing with a maddeningly brief attention span. They are usually far more interested in tossing it than falling in love with it. Its a brutal process and not for the faint of heart. The market for non-fiction is tough The market for fiction is absolutely terrible Poetry non-existant. That said, Good luck. hear from them for months. And when |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 9/25/2007 2:26:08 PM | show profile It's been all over the place for me. I had one agent not respond to a query for four months. I had others respond to an email query within an hour (in one case an agent and her assistant both read my entire novel within two weeks, if you can believe that). --You need to write the very best pitch letter you can and then sending out lots of them. Don't worry about personalizing it or any of that crap. The agents know what you're doing. They know the drill better than anyone. Pitching agents is a numbers game. You're going to have to go through large numbers of them. If your letter is good, a lot of them will want to look at it. Don't go giving exclusives unless the person is serious about turning it around within a tight period of time 2-3 weeks max. Even then, you'd be wise to tell em what they want to hear and just send it out. When I was pitching agents I'd email out twenty or thirty a week and always on sunday night. Agents look at pitch letters on monday morning. Any other time of week they're likely to just delete them Also, just cuz they sound interested and want to read it doesn't actually mean dick. You might not look at it for months and then you're dealing with a maddeningly brief attention span. They are usually far more interested in tossing it than falling in love with it. Its a brutal process and not for the faint of heart. The market for non-fiction is tough The market for fiction is absolutely terrible Poetry non-existant. That said, Good luck. hear from them for months. And when-- |
