Selecting An Agent (Part 1)
And now we leave our regularly scheduled program… As I write this, I’m looking at Mike Hyatt’s list of literary agents . I got here via literary agent Rachelle Gardner’s Blog . If you reference the image above, which is a simplified representation of the publishing process, you will see where I am in the overall process. I chose a different route this time. It ought to be the easier route. It isn’t. What it comes down to is that when you take this route you are asking a publisher to take a $40,000 or more risk. Unless you happen to be a personal friend of a publisher, it isn’t easy to convince a publisher to take that kind of risk. So what we do is hire someone to promote our work. I enter this side of the process with a story I love, but also with some apprehension. The story, which I’ve been calling Cowtown Homecoming , is about a snobbish rich man. Fort Worth businessman Fox Jacobs is king of the world around him, but as the book opens he is mourning the death of his four grandchild...