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Well, since we’re revamping the relationship book again, Katherine wants to try reaching out to literary agents (again) to see if they can knock on the mega-publishers’ doors for us.
Early responses back from those inquiries are not helpful. Many won't take new authors, only established authors recommended by other established authors. Others only accept "full-length" books.
I asked the agent exactly what her definition of "full-length" books was... since, in my mind, a book is as long as it needs to be to get your story told — no longer or shorter than that. If it's shorter than that, then it's not complete; if it's longer than that, then you're wasting your readers' valuable time with redundancy and unwanted rhetoric.
So, I’m back on the computer doing what I hate, Hate, HATE doing!!
And what’s my reward for doing it? I’m positioned and posed for more and more “encouraging letters of hope” to fill my inbox.
Yeah, I hate, Hate, HATE this part!
But, I keep telling myself that at least this exercise — no matter what the outcome — will, ultimately, lead us in the right direction.
[P.S. The literary agent did explain that there is a higher price break for books of 55,000 words or more, and she is only interested in pursuing higher page-count books.]
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