now with a website

A couple of people have recently asked me about my agent, Emily Sylvan Kim, who left Writer's House to start her own agency.

Ta da! Here you go, Prospect Agency.

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  1. Anonymous4:58 PM

    Can you tell your story of your search and ultimate acquisition of an agent? As someone who is just starting to consider agents, I'm curious.

    Also, I've read a couple of other blogs that weigh the question of agents for category and single title. What are your thoughts on that?

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  2. MY AGENT HISTORY:
    I figured out I needed an agent when I saw the contract from Kensington. I went into drool-mode immediately. Pages of stuff and I couldn't tell what mattered and what was trivial. Hell, I couldn't figure out what all that junk meant.

    I called a woman who'd been interested in my work and she agreed to take me on. She was a former editor and very good. Very professional and she worked hard. However the personality thing didn't fit (and I was the one who really didn't fit. Entirely me. It was a great shock to realize that I can't work with everyone on the planet.)

    She's a New Yorker and scared the bejeezus out of me. There're a lot of people who think having a bulldog of an agent is great, and I think if I were further along in my career it might be fine. But as a newbie, I needed to feel like I could ask lots of dumb questions.

    Anyway, that's when I learned that maybe having no agent is better than having a bad fit.

    I found Emily when a friend, Susan Meier, suggested I contact her. They'd worked together at some conference or another. Emily's mellow and has a sense of humor.

    Do you need an agent if you're writing category instead of mainstream? I don't know.

    A lot of my friends who write category don't bother with agents, but I'm getting the impression that the world of category is changing fast. That might mean that the so-called "boiler-plate" contract is also changing? I'd ask a H/S author, if I were you. They're usually a nice bunch.

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  3. PS I've made my own sales (so far). I was unagented when Hilary Sares made her offer and when Ellora's Cave took me on.

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  4. Hey! She's got Kate Donovan, too! I haven't seen her in forty freaking forevers! Love her stuff. Oh. And I love Edit Layton, too. (From above post)

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