Resources for Agent Hunting
These are the notes given out at the Loncon panel on ‘Agent Hunting’
UK Agents:
Writers and Artists Yearbook, http://www.writersservices.com/agent/uk09/index.htm
http://sites.google.com/site/literaryportal/literary-agency-directory-uk
Agents can be phoned.
Standard submission package: first 3 chapters, synopsis and short covering letter
News on new agents – The Bookseller, #literaryrejections
US Agents:
Agentquery.com, www.Querytracker.net, http://www.authoradvance.com/
http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/browse.html
pred-ed.com – cross check for scammers
For Query Letters:
http://queryshark.blogspot.com/
https://thoughtsfromtheagentdesk.wordpress.com/
Query Letter Hell on Absolutewrite
General Agenting Stuff:
theswivet.blogspot.com
nathanbransford.blogspot.com/
pubrants.blogspot.com/ (has examples of successful query letters)
bookendslitagency.blogspot.com/
General writing stuff:
Don’t phone US agents
Standard submission package: (check agent preferences first): killer query letter, first 5 pages
The T Party 