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The Agents Directory: Everything You Need to Know to Sell Your Book orScriptb

Literary Agents: A Writer’s Guideby Adam Begley is published in association with the New York-based group Poets and Writers

Check the dedication and acknowledgment pages of your favorite books, competing books, and books on your subject

Grateful writers thank their agents and editors, and agents will think you’re more professional if you mention one of their books. It’s an indirect kind of referral.

Agents also write books and are as easily seduced by praise as you will be, especially if you can say that you’re contacting them because of their book(s).

are among the agents who have written books.

Get published or get publicity about your work and yourself online or off. Agents and editors read media searching for writers and ideas.

The right blog, article, or short story at the right time in the right place can sell a book.

AAR member Sandy Dijkstra found Amy Tan because of a short story in ZZYZZVA, a San Francisco literary review.