Just how many literary agents are there? I wonder if I’ve run through the entire list yet. Just before the holidays, when I had a rare few free moments, I started sending out queries. I use agentquery.com . As Preditors & Editors shows, there are plenty of people out there ready to take you for every word you’ve got. In this day of webocentrism, you’d think agents, of all people, would keep up-to-date. Agents, however, are literally spoiled for choice. Most of them don’t need new clients since so many people are trying to break into writing that they can pick only what they find titillating. Like deciding at a glance that you’d never go out with this person. Never mind what might be inside. So I found five agencies, all listed as open to new queries and saying, “Yes, I’d like to see your work!” Out the emails went. The first email received an autoreply stating my query was being automatically deleted since the agen...
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