There are countless ineffective ways to pitch a manuscript, ranging from the slightly boneheaded (addressing a female literary agent as “Mr.” in a query letter) to the more extravagantly awkward ...

Janet Reid, the literary agent known for her sharp-tongued writings about the publishing industry, especially on her website Query Shark, died on April 14, following a brief illness. After moving to ...

Those are the odds of an unpublished author convincing a literary agent to represent your novel, according to Mark Malatesta at Literary-Agents.com. “The best book agents can get as many as 1,500 ...

Contact information is only available to Backstage members with subscriptions. Email a one page query letter describing work and background. No attachments however a first chapter may be pasted into ...