Adah's Job

Well, it will be a real job when it makes money, won't it? ;-)

On Tuesday the 5th, I got a response from a really great top-level Literary Agent requesting a look at the manuscript I have put together. So we sat down and looked the story over one last time to be sure we'd worked out all the bugs, and sent it today. We should know within a week whether the Agency will take me on as one of their clients.

If he does take me, then I'll pretty much have a real career at this in the bag. This guy is one of only a handful of Agents who will take a new writer and actually build their career, usually staying with them for their entire literary life. But he's no softie: he says that in today's market, to be a career novelist a writer has to be just as dedicated and perform to the standards of an Olympic athlete. He will require at least one book a year, more if he can get them. Usually this kind of productivity is unheard-of in the literary world, but he gets major results. All of his writers are successful.

Since I have literally dozens of stories just sitting around ready to be pounded into their final form, I don't see his rigorous demands as a problem. In fact my writing style (many books about the same character or world, not just one, the ability to put out more than one book a year, and the ability to write longer more involved storylines) looks from the research we've done to be a spot-on perfect match for the current market.

Now all I need is the Agent who will shop my books to the publishers. At least, I'd like to work with an Agent because they'll handle a lot of business and contract negotiation that frankly I don't want to deal with. I'll keep you all informed.

— Adah