Top heavy sounds good, you know, when it’s someone else’s problem. When it’s yours? Well, you apparently pretend it’s a bad thing, while secretly thinking “nyah, nyah, nyah.” Or other thoughts inappropriate for this blog. Thus is the problem at the Aaron M Priest Literary Agency. Agents Aaron Priest, Molly Friedrich, Lucy Childs, Lisa Erbach Vance, and Paul Cirone tend to carry a list a tilts about 90 degrees toward fiction — and, sure, they’re trying to fix the problem by courting the non-fiction authors, but it’s also a pretty darn good list, so why mess with success?
As for you, the author who is considering this agency, what advice can we offer you? Guidance, that’s what. Lots of useful guidance:
“Everybody is looking for the same thing,” Friedrich says, “a fresh way of looking at either the six plots in fiction or the treatment of a nonfiction subject.”
Read the whole article for more.
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3 responses so far ↓
Robert A. Rand // Feb 28, 2007 at 10:51 am
Looking for an agent in the semi-amateur detective mystery field
LUCILLE OLIVER // Apr 23, 2007 at 7:32 am
Hi!
I’m not a novice. I sold my first short story to LADIES HOME JOURNAL a long time ago. Many stories or articles sold between, even one mystery to Doubleday. But no more fiction. My new book
STOP!
Don’t Swallow that Pill Until
You’ve Read This Book
is one womaan’s experience with drugs and why the gentle reader can expect the same if she/he doesn’t do his own research before swallowing.
It’s an eye-opener. Be happy to send disk or whatever. Lu O.
Read This Book
LUCILLE OLIVER // Apr 23, 2007 at 7:33 am
Hi!
I’m not a novice. I sold my first short story to LADIES HOME JOURNAL a long time ago. Many stories or articles sold between, even one mystery to Doubleday. But no more fiction. My new book
STOP!
Don’t Swallow that Pill Until
You’ve Read This Book
is one womaan’s experience with drugs and why the gentle reader can expect the same if she/he doesn’t do his own research before swallowing.
It’s an eye-opener. Be happy to send disk or whatever. Lu O.