Most agents aren’t looking to sign your first book, we’re looking to work with you for your career. We look to your first book (and need to love it) to fall for your writing and take that as a precursor for what’s to come.
What we expect/hope for
We want you to connect with your editor and find a home in your publishing house.
We want you to grow over the course of each book.
We want you to find a core audience.
We want you to find success.
We want you to keep writing.
How the partnership gets started
This is the ideal situation and why we invest our time. We want to be the ones to help you kick-start your career and help you navigate through it while working on some fantastic books! Now, sometimes it gets complicated (the first book doesn’t get picked up, an author takes their career into a new genre, trust starts to erode) and not every client is the success story we both hoped for when we signed on together, but getting an agent is incredibly hard because we’re looking for more than what’s on the page. Continue reading Agents aren’t just signing your first book