![]() Are you from Detroit and love music? You may need to look no further than Carrie Howland. Do you have a novel set in North Carolina? Adam Eaglin could be your man. Have you written a piece of narrative nonfiction that gets to the heart of what it means to live in a specific geographical region? Duvall Osteen might be a great fit. In the following profiles, a dozen agents are dropping some subtle (and not so subtle) hints for you. You don’t want to simply fire off an e-mail to any agent you happen to come across. Read carefully. Remember, publishing is a business of relationships. (Of course, the same could be said about the challenge for agents.) To help narrow the field, I contacted some hungry agents who I know are eager to receive an e-mail from an as-yet-unknown writer and asked each of them for some basic information about what kind of work they want to read and how to reach them, as well as some not-so-basic information that will help you get to know them a little better. No, the challenge for writers is not a dearth of agents, but rather picking the right one out of the crowd. The carefully curated and focused database of literary agents at pw.org lists more than a hundred, including contact information, submission guidelines, and client lists. ![]() ![]() Another, more general, online database claims to offer details for nearly a thousand agents of varying levels of expertise and areas of emphasis. The Association of Authors’ Representatives (AAR), a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1991, currently lists more than four hundred agents as members, all of whom meet certain experience requirements and abide by an established code of ethics. ![]() To say there are a lot of literary agents out there is an understatement-almost like saying there are a lot of writers looking for an agent (but not quite). ![]()
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