{"id":165,"date":"2013-09-29T13:39:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T20:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?page_id=165"},"modified":"2013-09-29T13:39:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T20:39:58","slug":"how-to-get-an-agent","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?page_id=165","title":{"rendered":"How to Get an Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, August 29, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Panelists: [Note &#8212; I didn&#8217;t write down who the panelists were. \u00a0I&#8217;m having to look them up from the program. \u00a0The actual name of the panel was &#8220;How to Obtain an Agent&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Berlyne<\/li>\n<li>Joshua Bilmes<\/li>\n<li>Jaime Moyer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Note &#8212; \u00a0I just had a series of bullet points for this panel]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>agentquery.com<\/li>\n<li>Do the research (be thorough)<\/li>\n<li>Write from the heart<\/li>\n<li>Look at acknowledgements in books you like, and books that match your style<\/li>\n<li>Personalize your query letter when you can<\/li>\n<li>Use common sense<\/li>\n<li>Err on the side of caution<\/li>\n<li>Treat it like a job interview<\/li>\n<li>Sell one book at a time<\/li>\n<li>Shy away from exclusive submissions (except for special circumstances)<\/li>\n<li>Agents take on the author, not the book (so much). \u00a0Include relevant info.<\/li>\n<li>Agents like what they like<\/li>\n<li>Agents will google people they are interested in<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, August 29, 2013 Panelists: [Note &#8212; I didn&#8217;t write down who the panelists were. \u00a0I&#8217;m having to look them up from the program. \u00a0The actual name of the panel was &#8220;How to Obtain an Agent&#8221; John Berlyne Joshua Bilmes Jaime Moyer [Note &#8212; \u00a0I just had a series of bullet points for this panel] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":111,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-165","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions\/166"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}