{"id":3243,"date":"2005-03-31T04:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:24:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:24:57","slug":"agents-agents-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3243","title":{"rendered":"Agents, Agents, Agents&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A.fortis has shown so much <em>chutzpah<\/em> and moxie and a whole lot of other things with taking those wee rejection slips and making them into confetti that now I&#8217;m wondering why I&#8217;ve held off for so long on getting an agent.  I&#8217;ve been reading my own notes on this from the SCBWI Conference talk with Writer&#8217;s House agent Jodi Reamer last summer (you can check out the notes in our Files on Yahoo), and I&#8217;ve been going back and forth&#8230;  Finally, I&#8217;ve decided that I have something to offer.  So.  Tomorrow, people.  Going to contact Writer&#8217;s House, since they have the largest children&#8217;s list in the U.S., and see what their parameters are in accepting manuscripts, etc., and then go from there.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorsontheweb.com\/features\/0105-literary-agent\/0105-literary-agent.asp\"> Authors on the Web.com<\/a>, which has a little Literary Agent&#8217;s Rountable section, where they ask various questions of various agents from different houses.  What galvanized me into action was the answer one woman had about what she looks for in a query letter.  She said that what <em>she <\/em>wanted most to know is &#8220;What are you doing next?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m only as good as the next word I type.<br \/>Something to consider.<\/p>\n<p>Write away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A.fortis has shown so much chutzpah and moxie and a whole lot of other things with taking those wee rejection slips and making them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}