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by Katharine Sands

Product Details:

* Paperback: 288 pages
* Publisher: Watson-Guptill (April 1, 2004)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0871162067
* ISBN-13: 978-0871162069
* Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 2.8 inches
* Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds

Price : $9.55

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Inside This Book
First Sentence:
Imagine for a moment you’re a literary agent. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
poetry pitch, nonfiction proposal, good query letter, pitch letter, narrative nonfiction, query letters, discovery story, slush pile, commercial fiction
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs):
New York, Jeff Herman, Katharine Sands Sands, Random House, Pulitzer Prize, Bear Heart, Sheree Bykofsky, Stephen King, Distant Valor, San Francisco, William Morris, John Wiley, Literary Market Place, Publishers Weekly, Pushing Thirty, The Complete Idiot’s Guide, Tom Clancy, Alternate History, Babitt’s Copywriting Canon, Harry Potter, Hot Flashes, John Grisham, Old School, The World of Normal Boys, Trident Media Group

Editorial Reviews
From Booklist
Here’s a very useful book for first-time writers. Most how-to books for writers deal with this important subject (finding an agent) in a chapter or two, but Sands, a literary agent in New York, shows that there’s a lot more to it than one might expect. Drawing on the experience of a variety of agents (plus one copywriter), she demonstrates that finding an agent involves finding the perfect match between author and representative, between material and market. Think it’s easy to write a query letter? Think again: agents get a lot of mail, and you only have one chance to get their attention. Think it’s easy to put together a book proposal? Try it sometime, but try not to be too wordy, or too self-promoting, or too been-there-done-that. Do your homework, Sands stresses: don’t pitch a genre novel to an agent who deals primarily in nonfiction; do know what other books cover the same ground as yours. But, above all, do read this book, which should teach you pretty much everything you’ll need to know. David Pitt

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