Re: Re: publishing agent

Some resources:

Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Editors, Publisher and Literary Agents (Writer Books) is a great resource. Here's a link:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0871162016/copylawonlinA/002-2619317-53 92844

Writers conferences are also a good place to rub shoulders with literary agents. Find out what they are looking for.

www.shawguides.com is a good source for info on regional conferences.

There's a promising writers' conference in NYC April 28-29 in NYC. It's being held at the Small Press Center (www.smallpress.org) in conjunction with mediabistro.

James Fitzgerald Agency, Jake Elwell (Elwell & Wieser) , Jeff Herman and other lit agents will be attending. Also literary luminaries like Mary Higgins Clark. I believe the cost for two days is $295.00. I do pro bono work for the Small Press Center.

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More likely Robin Cook.

Literary agents specialize by genre, since their main asset is their rolodex of editors, so an agent who's be good for medical non-fiction probably wouldn't be good for a mystery. My agent is a whiz for computer books, OK for trade non-fiction, and wouldn't touch any sort of fiction.

I'd suggest working on the day-in-the-life book first, since it's a lot easier to get nonfiction published.

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