Janet Reid, Literary Agent

"Never miss a chance to do good"--David Stanley

Monday, September 25, 2023

YA or adult?

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    I have a question that I'm hoping you could please help with. I'm in the middle of the 3rd draft of a fant...
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Monday, September 18, 2023

Sins of the Past

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    I have a question regarding my WIP. I came up with a fabulous concept for a novel set in the ancient world about 8 years ago, but ...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

An update!!

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  Dear Janet, I just wanted to update you and the Reefers, after you so kindly answered my questions and calmed my panic in the blog post &#...
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Monday, September 11, 2023

We Will Never Forget

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Monday, September 04, 2023

Happy Labor Day

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  Oh good, it's a holiday. More time for petting me!
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Monday, August 28, 2023

Querying after a less than steller debut

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    My debut novel sold very poorly, largely because the publisher is an indie press who puts 100% of the marketing on...
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Monday, August 21, 2023

Blurbs

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    How much weight we should give to blurbs or recommendations for a novel from other authors.   I see so many blur...
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Monday, August 14, 2023

Why is YA no longer booming?

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    Yo, Sharkly one. Why is YA no longer booming?     Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I was about 8 years old and got my first...
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Monday, August 07, 2023

Yes, I'm sure you're right

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  There I was, splashing about in the eX-Twitterstream, when a comment floated by from a writer who opined the current querying system was...
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Monday, July 31, 2023

Client: Tom Lippman

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  Thomas W. Lippman spent nearly 40 years at the top ranks of American journalism. For most of that time he was at The Was...

Typos in a query

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  Recently, an incoming query misspelled the first word in the first sentence of the query. Of course I noticed. It w...
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Monday, July 24, 2023

Building Social Media

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I've been told I need a social media presence. I work full time, and have a family so I have to be extra creative and targeted about w...
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Monday, July 17, 2023

Accuracy isn't the only thing I'm looking for

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  Last week I was settling in on the couch at a new cat friend's apartment and found she was watching COPS.   I did not want to risk lif...
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Monday, July 10, 2023

Formatting in an email query

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Dear SHARK:   Since agents reasonably will not open attachments or PDFs and since there seems to be no way that works to keep original forma...
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I'm a literary agent in NYC. I specialize in crime fiction and narrative non-fiction (history and biography.) I'll be glad to receive a query letter from you; guidelines to help you decide if I'm looking for what you write are below. There are several posts labelled "query pitfalls" and "annoy me" that may help you avoid some common mistakes when querying.
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