tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post1093118812685566349..comments2024-03-18T09:09:59.625-04:00Comments on Janet Reid, Literary Agent: Wednesday morning Question BuffetJanet Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615380335938685231noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-16127967644464131072012-11-25T10:52:54.541-05:002012-11-25T10:52:54.541-05:00AJCAP: You can hire a freelance editor to go over ...AJCAP: You can hire a freelance editor to go over your manuscript and highlight some of the book's problems for you, which is what it sounds like you have already done.<br /><br />When you're finished your revisions with your freelance editor, then you can submit to agents, who, if they choose to represent you, will submit your work to editors who acquire works for publication.<br /><br />At least, that is my understanding of how things work. YMMV.Taymalinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13894922480703350634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-29728426373288620622012-11-23T10:07:44.595-05:002012-11-23T10:07:44.595-05:00It strikes me that the bigger sin wasn't to pi...It strikes me that the bigger sin wasn't to pitch to an editor before you became their agent, but to not let you know who had already seen it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-4952394342174205402012-11-22T13:23:14.984-05:002012-11-22T13:23:14.984-05:00Janet,
Thanks VERY much for making this so clear....Janet,<br /><br />Thanks VERY much for making this so clear. <br /><br />Just yesterday I was looking at a writing contest that would be seen by agents and editors/publishing people. As I considered entering I looked each one up and found that the pub folks were open to submissions. I had an itching suspicion that contacting them directly might mess up my plan on eventually finding an agent. Now I know for sure.<br /><br />For me...it's Agent first.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06147774427230437233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-82473454681724568702012-11-22T08:27:12.453-05:002012-11-22T08:27:12.453-05:00I am so confused. I thought I was supposed to hire...I am so confused. I thought I was supposed to hire editors and pitch to agents? At the one writers' conference I attended, an agent asked me to send her my first 100 pages but it was also suggested to me, by a guest speaker, to have my manuscript edited before I send it out. <br /><br /><i>Right now you're at the stage where an editor in hand feels a lot more secure than an agent out in the wild, but do NOT send material until you've secured an agent.</i><br /><br />From your blog, I guess I was given some bad advice at this conference. Mind you, the editor I hired is doing an amazing job at pointing out some plot problems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-69155053961943135432012-11-21T15:05:01.540-05:002012-11-21T15:05:01.540-05:00Thanks for this. This is exactly what we, the gre...Thanks for this. This is exactly what we, the great unwashed and unlearned, need to know. I totally appreciate you spelling it out for us.<br /><br />Happy Thanksgiving!!!Pamala Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12823051545160002135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-68363224734421546782012-11-21T08:38:48.012-05:002012-11-21T08:38:48.012-05:00Weaseling. I am waiting for the weaseling. (Yes, I...Weaseling. I am waiting for the weaseling. (Yes, I turned a noun into a verb. It fit).<br /><br />You have repeatedly provided advice on the conduct of business in the publishing world of just this sort and each time a stream of writers will nag and equivocate and ... weasel. They'll try and wiggle under the fence of advice and reason and grab the chicken of opportunity.<br /><br />More metaphors ? Try the shotgun of failure and heartbreak.<br /><br />There is something lost in a nation that moves from an agricultural society to industrial, post-industrial and finally technological states of commerce. The mass of writers it produces do not have the common sense of tending to chickens and dealing with weasels.<br /><br />I wait for the weasel parties. I wait for the "but I self-published 634 copies of _Gawdawful_" and doesn't that make me different? I wait. <br /><br />It already has been a poor morning. It's going to be a long comment pool for you too, dearie. <br /><br /><br />I hope your holiday includes the following:<br /><br />"Bobby - be a darling and hand auntie a glass of gin." <br /><br />Thanks for advice, by the way. <br /> jack wellinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06666545887771905191noreply@blogger.com