“They are called literary agents, and if you are a writer with one or more unpublished books on your hard drive you have probably received a terse note from several dozen of them telling you that your novel is ‘not a right fit’ for their agency at this time. In that moment you tore open that thin self-addressed envelope or read the two-line return email, you probably hated them. Not just that one agent, but all literary agents, as a class. How could they not see the brilliance in your manuscript? How could they possibly guess at the quality of your manuscript based on a one-page letter and a synopsis? And what the hell does ‘not a right fit’ mean, anyway? Is that even grammatical English?” - “A Right Fit”: Navigating the World of Literary Agents by Michael Bourne [Image via Bo’s Café Life]
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“They are called literary agents, and if you are a writer with one or more unpublished books on your hard drive you have probably received a terse note from several dozen of them telling you that your novel is ‘not a right fit’ for their agency at this time. In that moment you tore open that thin self-addressed envelope or read the two-line return email, you probably hated them. Not just that one agent, but all literary agents, as a class. How could they not see the brilliance in your manuscript? How could they possibly guess at the quality of your manuscript based on a one-page letter and a synopsis? And what the hell does ‘not a right fit’ mean, anyway? Is that even grammatical English?”

- “A Right Fit”: Navigating the World of Literary Agents by Michael Bourne

[Image via Bo’s Café Life]

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