1. Before You Do Anything2. Know What You're Selling3. The Query Letter4. The Synopsis5. Sample Chapters and Partials6. Finding the Right Agents7. Submitting Properly8. The Waiting (and What Comes Next)
Chapter 6 of 8
Finding the Right Agents
How to build a targeted shortlist that actually works.
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Querying every agent you can find is not a strategy. It wastes your time, irritates agents who don't represent your genre, and gives you no useful information when the rejections arrive. A targeted shortlist of thirty carefully researched agents will serve you far better than a spray of two hundred. This chapter is about how to identify the right agents for your specific book — not just any agent who is open to submissions.