Comments on: One of the best bits of my job http://www.writersandartists.co.uk/2009/11/one-of-the-best-bits-of-my-job/ Home of the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:45:51 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Cressida Downing (Editorial Consultant) http://www.writersandartists.co.uk/2009/11/one-of-the-best-bits-of-my-job/comment-page-1/#comment-696 Cressida Downing (Editorial Consultant) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:43:58 +0000 http://www.writersandartists.co.uk/?p=4156#comment-696 Hi Nina, This website is a great place to start! Go to the Listings section to the left of the page, click on 'quick search', and look for 'agents' in the drop-down box. This will give you over 300 contact details of agents. Good luck with your revamped book! Cressida Hi Nina,

This website is a great place to start! Go to the Listings section to the left of the page, click on ‘quick search’, and look for ‘agents’ in the drop-down box. This will give you over 300 contact details of agents.

Good luck with your revamped book!

Cressida

]]> By: nina http://www.writersandartists.co.uk/2009/11/one-of-the-best-bits-of-my-job/comment-page-1/#comment-684 nina Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:06:35 +0000 http://www.writersandartists.co.uk/?p=4156#comment-684 Hi Cressi, I completed a novel with a theme that is important to women - how not to be. The sad point of the story is that the heroin learns how not to be too late and is forced to spent the second part of her life to correct her mistakes as a mother....because coreecting mistakes in rearing children can take a span and work of a whole life. It is quite autobiographic. It is interesting which was once sad by an Virago editor but back then it was too long. Now it is shorter and edited, but now I can't find an agent. Could you or some friendly writer soul provide me with some addresses and/or email contacts? Who can help me to get into contact with an agency? Why is it so difficult to find one? HELP!!! Love Nina kette.nina@gmail.com Hi Cressi,
I completed a novel with a theme that is important to women – how not to be. The sad point of the story is that the heroin learns how not to be too late and is forced to spent the second part of her life to correct her mistakes as a mother….because coreecting mistakes in rearing children can take a span and work of a whole life. It is quite autobiographic. It is interesting which was once sad by an Virago editor but back then it was too long. Now it is shorter and edited, but now I can’t find an agent. Could you or some friendly writer soul provide me with some addresses and/or email contacts? Who can help me to get into contact with an agency? Why is it so difficult to find one? HELP!!!
Love
Nina
kette.nina@gmail.com

]]> By: Cressida Downing (Editorial Consultant) http://www.writersandartists.co.uk/2009/11/one-of-the-best-bits-of-my-job/comment-page-1/#comment-683 Cressida Downing (Editorial Consultant) Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:23:17 +0000 http://www.writersandartists.co.uk/?p=4156#comment-683 Hi James, I am writing a further blog post on the very important covering letter shortly - so look out for that - it should answer some of your questions. Hi James,

I am writing a further blog post on the very important covering letter shortly – so look out for that – it should answer some of your questions.

]]> By: James Ward http://www.writersandartists.co.uk/2009/11/one-of-the-best-bits-of-my-job/comment-page-1/#comment-673 James Ward Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:54:19 +0000 http://www.writersandartists.co.uk/?p=4156#comment-673 I've just finished and printed off a copy of my first manuscript. I have been tinkering with it for so long on my PC it has grown from eighty nine thousand words, to one hundred thousand and I felt if I didn't print a copy soon, it would still be there in another twelve years. Now I have to craft a covering/introduction letter, is there a set format for such a letter and what information is a must to add for an agent, without running into inside leg measurements? I’ve just finished and printed off a copy of my first manuscript.
I have been tinkering with it for so long on my PC it has grown from eighty nine thousand words, to one hundred thousand and I felt if I didn’t print a copy soon, it would still be there in another twelve years.

Now I have to craft a covering/introduction letter, is there a set format for such a letter and what information is a must to add for an agent, without running into inside leg measurements?

]]> By: Cressida Downing (editorial consultant) http://www.writersandartists.co.uk/2009/11/one-of-the-best-bits-of-my-job/comment-page-1/#comment-637 Cressida Downing (editorial consultant) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:31:19 +0000 http://www.writersandartists.co.uk/?p=4156#comment-637 Alex - that's a good point. Keep it general, and don't feel the urge to elaborate so much that the creative juices run dry! Cressi Alex – that’s a good point. Keep it general, and don’t feel the urge to elaborate so much that the creative juices run dry!

Cressi

]]> By: Alex http://www.writersandartists.co.uk/2009/11/one-of-the-best-bits-of-my-job/comment-page-1/#comment-636 Alex Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:18:39 +0000 http://www.writersandartists.co.uk/?p=4156#comment-636 This is great advice and has often worked for me. However, I think it's equally important to ensure you don't "talk it out" as Hemingway said. This is great advice and has often worked for me. However, I think it’s equally important to ensure you don’t “talk it out” as Hemingway said.

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