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How does a first time author choose a literary agent??

What you need to do, once you have a highly polished novel complete and impossible to improve, is identify agents who have recently sold other novels like it. This takes time and trips to a big bookstore, usually. Jot down the names of the authors in your genre whose books are currently on bookstore shelves. Look inside for thanks and dedications, where agents may be named.

You can do a search of each author’s name, in quotation marks, and the word agent and learn who represents whom. You can find other agents seeking work in your genre through writer’s Market and Literary Marketplace (US) or writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook (UK). Check the publisher listings, too, which will include “agented submissions only” or not. (Maybe you don’t even need an agent.)

Research each agent. Find websites with career history, sales, personal bio, AAR membership, etc. Determine whether they prefer email or regular mail for queries. Figure out who’s a good fit for you. Don’t be afraid to aim high. The worst that can happen is they say no.

Write a one-page query letter, tailoring it to individual agents as it’s possible with the information you got from research, and send it to the few agents you’d most like to represent you. If the query letter is really good and you’ve done your homework well, at least some will ask for a partial or full manuscript. If none does, rewrite the query before sending out the next batch.

Remember, reputable agents charge the author NOTHING up-front. Some agents may deduct the costs of doing business (copies, mail, phone) from your first check, but nobody legitimate needs that in order to get started.

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Arthur Ransome Photo Mugs ARTHUR RANSOME (1884 – 1967) First World War correspondent in Russia – later the author of the childrens book Swallows and Amazons (1930)….

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Baby Beluga $6.84 Baby Beluga is a fun-filled collection of favorite children’s songs and Raffi originals, all performed in the singer’s folksy, expressive style. Beluga begins with the sounds of whales communicating in their high-pitch squeaks (which presented here come across as cute and sweet) and features melodic lines that evoke vivid pictures of gentle waves and a frolicking whale. An illustrated sing-along b…

Where the Red Fern Grows $4.95 Based on Wilson Rawls’s 1961 novel of the same name, Where the Red Fern Grows is the touching story of a 12-year-old, Ozark mountain boy (Joseph Ashton) who wants a dog so badly he performs odd jobs for months and saves enough to get two hunting hounds. Just as he hoped, the dogs usher in a period of golden adventure and happiness. Moreover, the pets prove profitable at awards shows and courageous…

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Ancient Aliens: Season One $7.74 Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 11/23/2010…

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Roots (Four-Disc 30th Anniversary edition) $22.75 From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be auctioned as a slave in America, a line is begun that leads from this most shameful chapter in U.S. history to the 20th-century author Alex Haley, a Kinte descendant. The late Haley’s acclaimed book Roots was adapted into this six-volume…

Author, Author $8.32 In David Lodge’s last novel, Thinks… the novelist Henry James was invisibly present in quotation and allusion. In Author, Author he is centre stage, sometimes literally. The story begins in December 1915, with the dying author surrounded by his relatives and servants, most of whom have private anxieties of their own, then loops back to the 1880s, to chart the course of Henry’s ‘middle years’, focusing particularly on his friendship with the genial Punch artist and illustrator, George Du Maurier, and his intimate but chaste relationship with the American writer Constance Fenimore Woolson. By the end of the decade Henry is seriously worried by the failure of his books to ’sell’, and decides to try and achieve fame and fortune as a playwright, at the same time that George Du Maurier, whose sight is failing, diversifies into writing novels. The consequences, for both men, are surprising, ironic, comic and tragic by turns, reaching a climax in the years 1894-5. As Du Maurier’s Trilby, to the bewilderment of its author himself, becomes the bestseller of the century, Henry anxiously awaits the first night of his make-or-break play, Guy Domville … Thronged with vividly drawn characters, some of them with famous names, others recovered from obscurity, Author, Author presents a fascinating panorama of literary and theatrical life in late Victorian England, which in many ways foreshadowed today’s cultural mix of art, commerce and publicity. But it is essentially a novel about authorship – about the obsessions, hopes, dreams, triumphs and disappointments, of those who live by the pen – with, at its centre, an exquisite characterisation of one writer, rendered with remarkable empathy.

Author Representations in Literary Reading $149 Author Representations in Literary Reading investigates the role of the author in the mind of the reader. It is the first book-length empirical study on generated author inferences by readers of literature. It bridges the gap between theories which hold that the author is irrelevant and those that give him prominence. By combining insights and methods from both cognitive psychology and literary theory, this book contributes to a better understanding of how readers process literary texts and what role their assumptions about an author play. A series of experiments demonstrate that readers generate author inferences during the process of reading, which they use to create an image of the text’s author. The findings suggest that interpretations about the author play a pivotal role in the literary reading process. This book is relevant to scholars and students in all areas of the cognitive sciences, including literary studies and psychology.

Dante and the Making of a Modern Author $26 The first comprehensive study of Dante's evolving, transformative relationship to medieval ideas of authorship and authority.

Author $22.95 This volume investigates the changing definitions of the author, what it has meant historically to be an ‘author’, and the impact that this has had on literary culture.

Panorthosia Author Comenius 19-26 $130 Panorthosia (Universal Reform) is the essential theme of John Amos Comenius's famous Consultation on the Reform of Human Affairs, and chapters 19-26 represent its climax. In this volume is presented the first English translation of this major work of Comenius, which was lost from about 1672 until 1934 when the Latin scholars of Czechoslovakia had it edited for publication in Prague in 1960.