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Finding an Agent

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Dikaion:
Amazon also recommends a book I think by the same publisher that is just a list of literary agents, that might help if you don't need the comprehensive guide.

Torvaldr:
Thank you so much, this is the kind of information I needed. None of the books I saw at the library seemed to be like these.

Dikaion:
Glad I could help :)

Suilan:
Perhaps this will help with the first steps of finding the right agents for your genre.

http://www.agentquery.com/default.aspx

Good luck!

Kathleen Dante:

--- Quote from: Torvaldr on October 22, 2007, 10:20:25 PM ---Thanks, but you really missed the whole point of my question. How does one find an agent? You say find an agent that deals with my genre. HOW? They are not listed in phone books that I have found. I find almost no listing on line for literary agents. The books in the library are no real help. So how do you find an agent?

--- End quote ---

Ah, I failed to grasp the scope of your problem. My apologies. Well, Suilan already mentioned Agent Query. There's also

Preditors and Editors' agent listing
http://anotherealm.com/prededitors/pubagent.htm

The Association of Authors' Representatives
http://www.aar-online.org/mc/page.do

Alternatively, you could search out authors who write in the same genre as your manuscript and find out who represents them. You can do this online or by browsing the bookstores; authors sometimes mention their agents in the acknowledgment page.

You can also network. Agents do attend conferences. For example, the 2007 Pikes Peak Writers Conference (where incidentally Jim was a speaker) had a number of agents taking pitch meeting appointments.
http://www.ppwc.net/ppwc07.html#agents

Hope this was more helpful.

Kath

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