How Do You Get Published? A List of Ten Literary Agents Who Are Looking For New Authors

Billy I thought your new book was already available? So many people self publish these days. We only take on books that have a self help, esoteric or if it is fiction it has to have a spiritual or predictive humanitarian flavor that we are known for.l Good luck.

Looks like it is time to finish my book. Very kind of you to share such valuable information. Do any of the books in your ads seem the most helpful (like the current agent book or one on writing queries)? Are you writing a hub about query letters and what not to do?

This hub is one of my personal favorites! Great job - I certainly won't forget you if one of the literary agents on your list turns out to be my pot of gold (well I won't forget you if it doesn't turn out that way either :))

Thank you for sharing this valuable information, Bill. I don't know when I will get around to it, but I plan to use this in the near future.

Thanks, Bill not only for the list, but for the encouragement! In reading your closing statement, I couldn't help but be reminded of again of one of those "literary giants" who toiled for years before hitting the jackpot (King). I hope you find your pot of gold very, very soon!

A great hub. Those of us who are struggling writers need all the help we can get. Your article gives us a lot of good advise. I enjoyed it and would like to follow you on HubPages. Thanks!

Billy this is very useful information, you are so generous!...this will help many of us would be writers.

Take care now.

I sent query letters to agents and the only one to respond berated me and told me my letter was the worst thing he ever read. He said he would never bother to look at anything I wrote. I gave up after that, sorry to say. I put my book on Kindle, but my next one I will try harder. Thanks for the advise and tips.

This is an incredibly useful hub Bill! I imagine loads of people will be helped by this. Shared big time!

Great help to us who hope to become published someday. Thanks for sharing your expertise with us. Found it useful and interesting. Voted it up. : )

What a great and generous hub! Since I don't have a book......yet, I will bookmark this for later! Thank you!

Thanks for the leads and the words of encouragement. I have no doubt you will find your pot of gold. :)

Thank you Bill, for sharing such an important list, this would be of great help to many writers who want to publish their work here, you are a great courteous man, God bless.

Nice and informative hub Billy. I'm writing a novel right now and still not sure whether to try and publish in paper form or ebook form. I have some non-fiction stuff in ebook form and short stories but for a novel I am not sure what to do. At least your hub gives me a place to start in paper form. Thanks for the information.

Very well told, breaking into writing as a career is by no means for anyone seeking instant gratification! Btw, thanks for the friendly list of agents and sharing your experience as a writer.

Thanks Bill for such an informative hub. Great info and impressively put together.

Ignore that bit about Hollywood moguls, Bill - just a stale old Brit joke. Onceover, when the Yanks came here in 1941 everybody here thought every Yank had a Hollywood producer in his back pocket! Nice thought all the same, eh?

Thanks you so much, my brother

This is one of the most informative hubs I have read yet. Thank you so much for sharing this information. I would love to publish a book someday, but I still have a lot to learn yet.

Bookmarked, voted up and all that good stuff!

Billy,

I think I will have to bookmark your each and every hub. Your hubs are not only inspiring but also very useful and informative, sometimes even funny.

I have complete two manuscripts, one is a short story collection and other is a novel. Thanks for sharing this informative and useful hub.

Thanks for the information billybuc, whenever I finish one of the stories I've decided to write, I may just send out a few emails.

I wish you the very best on your road to success! Some of these agents are also on my list; other names were new to me. How nice to of you to share your list with us. I've put publishing on the back burner since HP takes up most of my extra time. Reading this Hub rekindled my desire to find the right publisher for my young adult book. Thanks!

Good on you.

Your friend in the video has mentioned both ways. I took the traditional way with the first, but I was and am still tempted with the self-published way.

A slight digression here: 61 today!! wish me a happy birthday. (smile)

Thanks again, Billybuc.

I have finalled managed to play the 'query' video as well. Great points and by an expert, too. Well, I have sent book 1 with a Nepalese publisher, and I am on chapter 6 with the other. So great ideas to consider here. One can never know too much.

By the way, I may be wrong, but I thought that you had already published one book. No?

Wow. What a great resource. Thanks for doing the leg work!

It's a great post and very informative. Voted up

Excellent hub, Billy. I'm still trying to figure out the pros and cons of eBooks versus books. Thanks for this invaluable info! :-)

Hi Bill

This is helpful information. I have been rejected...I compiled a cookbook about 25 years ago and sent it to my friend in Vero Beach. He made awesome illustrations and I sent if off to publishers...about ten....big publishing houses whose names are well known.

I received my manuscript and the rejection slip back from all of them but one.

After that time I just never got back to it as my life was so full with all that our lives is full of. I would like maybe one day to publish but again circumstances are not right at this time. If I do so, it will be on line. Again, thanks for the Agents' list...maybe one day I will need it. Surely others will welcome the information right now.

Sending you many many Angels ....to you and yours on this Sunday morning...:) ps

Hi Bill!

Thanks once again for this very informative and useful hub here. It is so great of you to share all of this information here with us!

Excellent and very much appreciated.

Voted up ++++ and sharing

Blessings, Faith Reaper

Thank you for this valuable info. I got off to a rough start 2 years ago.

Billy,

Further to our above exchange of notes, if you haven't already written about self-publishing, please add a 'how to' hub on that too. It is just a request :-)

Hello Bill, I guess I will keep you valuable info for use at some future point, probably when I have written as many hubs as you! That should allow me a few more years to procrastinate. As usual, you are a mine of information and a model of kindness. Thanks for writing this.

A little P.S. Thanks for your concern. We made out well, only about a foot, and did Not lose electricity...whoopee...we're so seasoned we drove down to NJ to visit!

This is a hard market to make it in. I've heard some publishers get so many submissions that most books never get looked at before receiving a rejection. Your hub contains good information and if we don't keep trying, we'll never make it.

Best of luck and don't forget the Harry Potter books. The author got rejection after rejection before she was published. I bet those publishers were depressed when they realized the success they missed.

Bill, I think it is great that you try to help writers. I applaud you for that. They say that everyone has at least one book inside, but you need the desire to write that book, for which i have none. I love to write narrative poetry and the plight of the disadvantaged, sometimes i enjoy writing a humorous poem. I know others will take advantage of your list of contacts. Good luck to you all..Cheers

This is great advice billy, and will hopefully be really useful for someone. I am just writing my second book but will only go down the amazon route to be honest because as you say its pretty difficult, but you never know! voted up! nell

Billy,

To those interested in getting published, self-publishing is another avenue. Adventurer-speaker Alastair Humphreys has self-published at least 4 books and he has been pretty successful at it.

very useful bill......I have read many times about author struggling to have their book published.......I haven't written any novel yet but if ever in the future I dare, this will be very helpful.

Thanks for sharing Bill.

Bill, thanx for the insight. It seems most publishers are interested in promoting reading for today's youth. They should be made aware of your H.O.W. movement!

The attached video is very informative; I am a subscriber the the the site that presents the information.

Once again, thank you for doing all you can to find avenues with which we aspriring writers can earn a lucrative livelihood and become known in the literary world.

Very interesting, Billybuc,

Great subject and advice for many of us here, I guess. I have read some of your work, and yes, have faith, something will definitely happen. It is good to try finding someone who deals with your speciality or genre. Increases your chances, but I guess that you have this covered.

I specialise in Yoga philosophy/spirituality and so I generally need to look in the right places. I know of Writer's House. Useful. I will return to your 'query' later. You readers may know that it is quite important. Stay blessed.

Useful stuff to know. I trawled the whole WRITERS' & ARTISTS YEARBOOK for about two-three years whilst writing RAVENFEAST and got fed up, making the stupid mistake of going with Authorhouse. I've recovered something like dignity since switching to New Generation (London EC2). I've won't learn about my royalties until April, so I've got a wait yet. Know any Hollywood movie producers, like the ones who produced the SHARPE films for Bernard Cornwell?

Bill, I am safe, and I didn't lose power! In Boston we got around 22 inches, last I heard. But it's hard to tell, because the wind was blowing for so many hours. There are some spots that are deep, and some that aren't that bad. For the past 24 hours or so, there's been a ban on driving, except for emergency vehicles and plows, etc, in Mass. I have seen a lot of people out shoveling, sledding and skiing down the steep hill beside our building, and cute little dogs bounding through the snow today. Fun times!

Wonderful resource, Bill. I was thinking, "I wouldn't even know where to begin to pitch a novel..." Then I thought, "maybe I should write one first!" Pinning this for future reference :)

Pinning this for future reference! Writing a book and getting published is on my bucket list! :)

Bill....Thanks for your generosity in sharing this list and the tips for approaching each of these agents.

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Jaye

Writer's Digest Books has a book on "How To Get A Literary Agent" by Michael Larsen, AAR which includes "finding and agent, becoming their dream client, and making your submission stand out". billybuc has done the rest for you, and this book may well be available through your local library. Good work done well, billyb!

Thanks for this wonderful list! One day, I want to be published...that's a ways in the future, but I'll keep your list just in case they are still interested then!

V0ted up!

Thank you, Bill. I will keep this in mind when the time comes.

Thank you for the information! I have a short story that i want to expand into a novel this will be helpful.