As Hodapp says, the letter has one goal: to get the agent to request the full manuscript, "period." It's harder than it looks. Agents receive thousands of letters and only respond to a small fraction.

Literary agent Regina Brooks, founder of Serendipity Literary Agency, has represented fiction and nonfiction authors and illustrators. In this interview, Brooks shares how authors can stand out ...

He requires those who query him – 50 to 100 a week – to submit lengthy proposals using his template, before he decides whether to represent them. They must provide details “on what the author is going ...

Eric Smith is a literary agent at P. S. Literary. His 2020 manuscript wishlist includes genre blending literary fiction and young adult novels. Smith says "hope" is the guiding principle of the YA ...

Read the open letter, in full, below. Signatures can be added to the letter here. * * * December 1, 2020 To the Board of Poets House, We are writing from a place of interest and concern.

Janet Reid, the literary agent known for her sharp-tongued writings about the publishing industry, especially on her website Query Shark, died on April 14, following a brief illness.

More than 70 writers wrote an open letter outlining their issues with the use of A.I. in the literary world. Their main demand is for publishing houses to never release books created by machines.