I wrote a scifi novel for children/young adult readers and I am looking for an agent/publisher. Any advise please?
I believe agents only look at your book once. It's not possible to submit the same book to the same agent, after re-working it. There are quite a lot of formalities involved in following each agent's submission criteria, writing a proper synopsis, etc.I wrote a scifi novel for children/young adult readers and I am looking for an agent/publisher. Any advise please?
I believe agents only look at your book once. It's not possible to submit the same book to the same agent, after re-working it.
It's the whole X-factor thing, with the mass of talentless wannabees wailing into the mic - wanting to be able to perform and being able to perform are not the same thing. And this is the conundrum agents and publishers face: how to deal with the mass of dross and pick the gems from the dung heap? For us gems, it means we have a very short moment to shine and that is not easy.
Every time I look at Twitter or Facebook, another news item about their abuse of personal data comes out. (Latest is Facebook taking phone numbers collected for two-tier security and using them to identify users across different platforms. How can you trust their security if they use it for other purposes?)
I might be shooting myself in the foot but anything owned by Mark Zuckerberg is basically malware.
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