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Post by Rhys on Oct 10, 2005 21:43:54 GMT
Sent synopses for Blood Lust and The Carrion off to an agent last week. It starts again.  |
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Post by kaz on Oct 12, 2005 16:22:12 GMT
How do you chose an agent, I'm curious.
Best of luck.
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Post by Rhys on Oct 12, 2005 17:55:43 GMT
A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Need I go on? Sorry. There are two books out there; The Writer And Artist's Handbook and The Writer's Handbook that list UK and US agents and publishers (and other stuff). Each entry specifies what genres they deal with. I used to pick which ones sounded best/nicest - now I'm staring at the beginning and working my way through. Seeing if anyone will have me  |
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Post by kaz on Oct 17, 2005 16:37:23 GMT
Fair enough.
I was just curious how you went about it.
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Post by Rhys on Nov 11, 2005 9:52:34 GMT
Sanseng kindly plugged me to a a contact who then passed him the name of someone at Marjacq Scripts. Sent the package to him (namedropping as much as poss) only for it to be returned almost immediately with an automated print rejection.
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Post by kaz on Nov 30, 2005 10:54:23 GMT
Bugger.
So the quest continues.
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Post by Rhys on Nov 30, 2005 18:44:48 GMT
Yah. It's all a bit boring. I'm going to break it down and send out Aftermath separately as it's more sci-fi than horror.
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Post by Rhys on Jan 15, 2006 16:01:23 GMT
With Revelations done I've whipped up a synopsis and sent all 4 to Mic Cheetham Literary Agency.
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Post by Rhys on Feb 27, 2006 17:13:59 GMT
And they got whipped back to me. However, it seems that the new approach may have had some affect as they sat on it for practically a month and the rejection letter wasn't a completely an auto-response.
So at least they might have bothered to read them.
Tomorrow they shall be sent out again to one of the two agents they suggested.
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Post by kaz on Mar 5, 2006 18:29:18 GMT
Good luck.
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Post by Rhys on Mar 16, 2006 22:03:30 GMT
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooooooooooow KER-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Yes. That was me bombing out again.
NEXT!
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Post by Rhys on Mar 31, 2006 10:46:17 GMT
Curtis Brown Group have drawn the next shortest straw.
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Post by Rhys on Apr 1, 2006 16:38:46 GMT
Sent back asking for sample chapters (I do not read this as a good thing just that I obviously hadn't submitted 'properly').
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Post by kaz on Apr 10, 2006 7:40:45 GMT
They could have just rejected you, be positive.
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Post by Rhys on Apr 12, 2006 12:52:00 GMT
After a 'Treasurehunt' style hunt for decent envelopes around town yesterday I decided to not be clever and just send the whole lot off in one batch with just one SAE.
Hopefully the mrs has got down the Post Office today and I dread to think how much it'll cost.
Reply should be in 4 - 6 weeks apparently.
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