It’s every querying author’s dream: after weeks/months/years of putting your artistic heart out there, you get the yes you’ve been waiting for. This is one of the rare times in the publishing process when writers have power. How do you make the most of it? By making sure that the agent you choose is the best person to represent you, ideally not just for the project but for your writer career.
When I was in the query trenches, I loved reading posts like this. They were the helpful reminder that there is no one right way to find an agent. There's…
A few voices chime in that no one liked their pitch. They got a like, but it was from a vanity publisher, not from an agent. They tried PitchWars and didn’t get in, they tried Nightmare on Query Street and didn’t get in, they tried DVPit and didn’t get in – and now they’re thinking their flavor of book is not marketable. And they say in a small voice, maybe they won’t query after all. Maybe they will put their work back on the shelf.