When Is A Manuscript Too Long?
AKA Know Your Audience
How many words are too many? If you are writing for young adults or children, it may be a lower number than you think.
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Practicing Your Pitch
AKA This is What I Wrote
If you have the chance to pitch your novel to an agent in person, do yourself a favor and practice.
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The Real Estate Metaphor
AKA The Selling of Your Manuscript House
Think of a literary agent as a real estate agent and your manuscript as a house. You are trying to find the right person who will sell your manuscript/house to a publisher/buyer.
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How To Find An Agent in 2 Steps
AKA Perseverance & Patience
You’ve got a completed, edited, polished manuscript ready to go. You just need to find an agent who wants to represent your book. Let the research begin.
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How to Write a Query Letter
AKA Please Read My Manuscript
A query letter is the first thing an agent wants to see from you, and one of the last things you want to write. It could be on paper, it could be an email. What it cannot be is more than one page.
