Setting Sights on New Directions

So, now you’re up to date.  To recap:  The publishing industry is cut-throat and grows increasingly competitive; 187,000 books came out in the last year (2009) alone.  The major New York houses that literary agents deal with are looking for authors with wide media access and books with national sales potential; and in the current economy, they are hesitant to take on even the strongest of new clients.

This sobering realization has prompted us to sit down and do some brainstorming to try to jump the obvious hurdles that are in front of us.  Definitely, some unconventional avenues need to be explored if we're to be "picked up" by publishers.