Tag: literary-agents

• What My Pass Means Part 1: Why Agents Use Form Responses

  As a querying author sometimes it seems impossible to figure out what is not working with your pitch and pages. Is it the pitch? Are the pages not working? Is this the wrong genre? There are so many questions that can come up, with little to no answer given in passes. First, agents do their…

  Christine Kelly

  September 2, 2025

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• Author/Agenting Boundaries

  My therapist likes to remind me I have moral OCD and think in black and white to my detriment. But some somethings are so unmovable for me I won’t change. One of them is holding strict boundaries between being an agent and being an author. What are these boundaries? Let me spell them out so…

  Christine Kelly

  March 13, 2025

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  books, literary-agents, publishing, querying, writing

• When To Nudge an Agent

  

  I have been getting a lot of nudges, most of them very useful and urgent (so many offers of rep, yay!!). But I have gotten a few that compelled me to write this blog post. When you query, you send your pitch out into the abyss and wait and wait and wait. Literary agents are…

  Christine Kelly

  October 2, 2024

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• Looking for a Agent? Here’s what to look for!

  Being in the query trenches is brutal. There is no sugar coating it. You are grueling over a piece of art that you put out into the world to get passed on over and over again. That’s the reality of it. Yet, there is the hope that one person will like your manuscript enough to…

  Christine Kelly

  September 24, 2024

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  literary-agents, publishing, querying, writing, writing-tips

• 2023 Recap: Agenting

  Of all the things that happened in 2023, I would say this is the biggest. Becoming an agent is something I realized that I should have tried to do sooner if I knew how much joy it would bring me, and how secure in my abilities I felt. I am so excited for this next…

  Christine Kelly

  December 14, 2023

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  literary-agents, publishing, querying, writing, writing-tips