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Agent and Publisher Information and Querying ResourcesThe Ps and Qs of Pitching and Querying, or Paths to Publishing SuccessAWP March 2020 Panel by Maryka Biaggio, Leland Cheuk,Melissa Danaczko, Erin Harris & Liza Nash TaylorOrganizations and BlogsAAR (Association of Author’s Representatives) . A professional organization for literary agents. They have a member database that is a good place to look for agents to query.Advice from literary agent Carly Watters on querying: what questions agents might ask you: how to write a synopsis: Query. Database of agents (but not always up to date.) Query tracker is better. The Author’s Guild. You must pay to join this organization, but they offer regional Facebook groups and feature author profiles, free member webinars, and advice and support for self-publishing. Their legal team will review agent or publisher’s contract free for members. website. Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Besides their huge annual conference, the website has a database of contests, fellowships, and calls for submission. Publish Newsletter. They offer a free weekly online newsletter with submissions and contests. Duotrope. Online listing/submission tracking service with a weekly newsletter of themed submissions, contests, and deadlines. They also have a database of literary agents. Gotham Writer’s Workshop. Offers online classes on writing a query letter, moderated by an actual agent, with individualized feedback. They also off classes on Nonfiction Book Proposals. . Literary Rejections on Display Blog. Wish list. Features input from agents (mostly newer agents) with their wish lists for manuscripts. Also on Twitter. They also do online pitch contests and events. and #pitchwars. #PitMad is a quarterly pitch party on Twitter where writers tweet a 280-character pitch for their completed, polished, unpublished manuscripts. Agents and editors make requests by liking/favoriting the tweeted pitch. Every unagented writer is welcome to pitch. All genres/categories are welcomed. ’s Marketplace. This site offers a Daily Deals newsletter listing agents, authors, and publishers. They also publish a daily industry newsletter called Publisher’s Lunch. Their extensive database (available to subscribers for $25/month) lists authors, their agents, and agents and their agencies. This is a well-respected primary source of good, current information. ’s Weekly. A newsletter of publishing news, by subscription. Here is a good explanation of the top publishers and their imprints: Shark Blog. Literary agent Janet Reid’s critiques real query letters on this interactive blog. Tracker. Agent information and feedback from fellow queriers. Beware of what you post because agents look at this. too. If you pay for their premium service you can see statistics on agents’ responses and response times, which is calculated from user input. . This site offers free and paid premium services for website building and blogging, especially geared toward writers. and similar sites allow you to enter chapters or entire manuscripts to see a visual of the predomination of individual words in your work. Enlightening.Writer’s Digest. A good resource for writers of all levels. It offers a Literary Agent Boot Camp for formulating queries: ResourcesFive tips for your first five pages: good blog post from Jane Friedman on query letters: one from Jane on writing a novel synopsis: Jane tells us how to write a nonfiction book proposal: to search for agents:Manuscript Wish list (MSWL) website and Twitter eventsWriting Conferences and events with agents attendingPitch festsAuthor’s acknowledgements in booksListings in Poets and Writers and The Writer’s ChroniclePublisher’s Marketplace Daily newsletter and databaseQuery TrackerAgent QueryAAR websiteDuotrope also has an agent databaseHow to research agents once you find them: In addition to reading about them on their agency websites, read their profiles on Publisher’s Marketplace to see whom they represent and how many deals they have done.Look at their social media profiles.Google them to look for interviews or guest blog posts.Look for their profiles on AgentQuery and Querytracker and read the comments. A list of publishers who accept unagented submissions: list of independent publishers and university presses: loglines and pitches: ................
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