Comments on: Dan Conaway, Literary Agent (part 2) http://www.litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/ LitPark Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:30:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dan Conaway, Literary Agent (part 1) http://www.litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-11112 Dan Conaway, Literary Agent (part 1) Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:05:54 +0000 http://litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-11112 [...] Okay, guys, jump in with your comments. And then check out Part 2 of this interview…. [...] [...] Okay, guys, jump in with your comments. And then check out Part 2 of this interview…. [...]

]]> By: SusanHenderson http://www.litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-9908 SusanHenderson Wed, 20 May 2009 08:46:49 +0000 http://litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-9908 Thanks, Lydia. Good luck finding an agent and getting those books in the hands of readers! Thanks, Lydia. Good luck finding an agent and getting those books in the hands of readers!

]]> By: lydiafrenzel http://www.litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-9907 lydiafrenzel Tue, 19 May 2009 10:49:37 +0000 http://litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-9907 Wonderful interview. Getting the right agent is top priority, just after excellent story telling. Writers House appears to be a breath of fresh air. Query letters are on their way. My husband and I love to write and have 6 novels- 3 in epic adventure; 3 in industrial espionage, and 1 non-fiction- the adventures of a Rotary District Governor. They are either fully edited or where we ourselves are re-editing. Four years ago, an agent loved the industrial espionage- he couldn't put them down, but he kept asking for more volumes and more money for editing. We finally abandoned him because we couldn't get concrete responses of where he was sending the queries. Two years ago, another agent fell in love with the epic adventure; the presentation was fresh. She is also an editor, primarily with a Christian publisher, workshop presenter, professor of writing, and a published author. She did wonderful professional editing. However, just recently said she was putting her literary agency on hold to edit and teach full time. So now we are back to square one, looking for an agent. Wonderful interview. Getting the right agent is top priority, just after excellent story telling. Writers House appears to be a breath of fresh air. Query letters are on their way.
My husband and I love to write and have 6 novels- 3 in epic adventure; 3 in industrial espionage, and 1 non-fiction- the adventures of a Rotary District Governor. They are either fully edited or where we ourselves are re-editing. Four years ago, an agent loved the industrial espionage- he couldn’t put them down, but he kept asking for more volumes and more money for editing. We finally abandoned him because we couldn’t get concrete responses of where he was sending the queries. Two years ago, another agent fell in love with the epic adventure; the presentation was fresh. She is also an editor, primarily with a Christian publisher, workshop presenter, professor of writing, and a published author. She did wonderful professional editing. However, just recently said she was putting her literary agency on hold to edit and teach full time. So now we are back to square one, looking for an agent.

]]> By: SusanHenderson http://www.litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-9906 SusanHenderson Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:29:45 +0000 http://litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-9906 This is an especially good article on agents: http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/books/story.html?id=1068410 This is an especially good article on agents: http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/books/story.html?id=1068410

]]> By: litpark » Dan Conaway, Literary Agent (part 1) http://www.litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-4523 litpark » Dan Conaway, Literary Agent (part 1) Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:29:50 +0000 http://litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-4523 [...] guys, jump in with your comments. And then check out Part 2 of this interview…. This entry was written by Susan Henderson and posted on October 29, 2008 at 12:01 am and [...] [...] guys, jump in with your comments. And then check out Part 2 of this interview…. This entry was written by Susan Henderson and posted on October 29, 2008 at 12:01 am and [...]

]]> By: Carolyn_Burns_Bass http://www.litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-9905 Carolyn_Burns_Bass Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:43:57 +0000 http://litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-9905 This comment says it all: "To work, day after day, in the face of so much uncertainty—I’m talking now just about the creative process; add to that the nightmarish vulnerability that most writers experience on the business front, the difficulties of building a sustainable career as a writer—it’s miraculous that anybody can ever finish anything. I really can’t think of a harder job, because you can go months, even years without the sort of ordinary affirmations that a working joe like me encounters as a matter of course. As an editor, as an agent, hell, even when I was the King of Junk Mail for W.W. Norton, creating direct mail advertising for college textbooks, if you’re any good at your work, generally there are lots of ways in which you’ll be reminded, on a daily basis, that you are, indeed, good at your work. And that makes it quite a bit easier to keep putting one foot in front of another, you know?" You are someone who gets it. No wonder your writerly wife fell in love with you. This comment says it all: “To work, day after day, in the face of so much uncertainty—I’m talking now just about the creative process; add to that the nightmarish vulnerability that most writers experience on the business front, the difficulties of building a sustainable career as a writer—it’s miraculous that anybody can ever finish anything. I really can’t think of a harder job, because you can go months, even years without the sort of ordinary affirmations that a working joe like me encounters as a matter of course. As an editor, as an agent, hell, even when I was the King of Junk Mail for W.W. Norton, creating direct mail advertising for college textbooks, if you’re any good at your work, generally there are lots of ways in which you’ll be reminded, on a daily basis, that you are, indeed, good at your work. And that makes it quite a bit easier to keep putting one foot in front of another, you know?”

You are someone who gets it. No wonder your writerly wife fell in love with you.

]]> By: SusanHenderson http://www.litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-9904 SusanHenderson Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:17:47 +0000 http://litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-9904 What Jessica says is so true - what a really great surprise Mad Max was because he was HUMAN. You start to get the idea editors and publishers are all 8 feet tall robots and no longer care about anything but those money-making cookbooks and how-to books and Paris Hilton thoughts of the day. And here was this person who really cared about his writers and their books and felt frustration about the system, etc. It helped a lot of us trust the system again, broken as it is, because we saw it had a beating heart. What Jessica says is so true – what a really great surprise Mad Max was because he was HUMAN. You start to get the idea editors and publishers are all 8 feet tall robots and no longer care about anything but those money-making cookbooks and how-to books and Paris Hilton thoughts of the day. And here was this person who really cared about his writers and their books and felt frustration about the system, etc. It helped a lot of us trust the system again, broken as it is, because we saw it had a beating heart.

]]> By: jessicaK http://www.litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-9903 jessicaK Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:50:54 +0000 http://litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-9903 *laughing* Of course! Jessica Keener *laughing*

Of course!

Jessica Keener

]]> By: DConaway http://www.litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-9902 DConaway Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:23:13 +0000 http://litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-9902 I can't say how common it is, but when somebody sends a query that way to me, and it's no more than a page or two, I never don't look at the sample.  I definitely recommend it--can't hurt, in my view. I can’t say how common it is, but when somebody sends a query that way to me, and it’s no more than a page or two, I never don’t look at the sample.  I definitely recommend it–can’t hurt, in my view.

]]> By: DConaway http://www.litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-9901 DConaway Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:57:41 +0000 http://litpark.com/2008/11/05/dan-conaway-literary-agent-part-2/#comment-9901 Thanks, Jessica--and I'm going to assume that "bumbling" refers to somebody other than me? ;-) Thanks, Jessica–and I’m going to assume that “bumbling” refers to somebody other than me? ;-)

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