Janet Reid, Literary Agent

Friend of mine queried last summer, got multiple offers by October/November. Signed with agent awesome (great sales record - powerhouse in ...

I absolutely love the Harry Potter series. I've read it 15 times and I never get tired of it. I wish I could live in those worlds. So ...

What do you do when all of your beta readers have totally different advice? I've traded beta reads on the first section (approx. 50 ...

I've been querying a particular novel for some time now. At the beginning of the query track, I made a list of "dream agents"...

I recently received a rejection from my dream agent, who after requesting the full manuscript, had only positive things to stay about my wr...

 I've been in the writing game for a long time (specifically, I've written ten novels over the course of ten years) and, to be fran...

I recently received a rejection on a full. Here’s the blow-by-blow on how reading that rejection went: “Hi Robert,”  Phew, good sign,...

  My contract states that my advance is "payable upon the Publisher's acceptance for publication of the complete and final manuscr...

So signing with a very new/ junior agent seems like a perfectly fine thing to do if that agent is embedded within a good agency and they ...

I spent a couple of months reading Query Shark posts, taking copious notes, and hammering out my own query letter. Thanks to your terrifyin...

I received a full MS request eight months ago today and received personal confirmation that it was received. This particular agent promises...

This fall I signed with a literary agent for a YA novel. When we discussed plans for submission, she said she would contact approximately ...

The assistant for a very good, old school New York agent requested a partial of my thriller, then requested the full. Two weeks later, the ...

 Although I’ve got one novel (with Publisher Good) and two non-fiction books (with Publisher More Good) to my credit, I lost my previous ag...

CarolynnWith2Ns asked this in the comment trail of the blog post about timing : At what point does expecting someone to be patient become...

OMG. I just learned that my publisher is filing bankruptcy. The owner is in the process of returning rights to us but is there anything els...

I recently had an agent email me, "Love your writing, want to talk. What's a good time?" I emailed back some suggestions. Hav...

Imagine my excitement when I landed Big Time Agent! However, after I signed the contract, crickets. After 2 months I sent a gentle emai...

I am a contemporary romance writer and have been submitting my third novel to agents. I'm delighted to say that I have had 6 Full r...

I've been querying a non-fiction project that I am working on with another writer. We've been accumulating our share of rejections ...