Comments on: Tommy’s Top Tips – Number 1: Literary Agents

By: Navin

Navin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:12:21 +0000

Hi,
It was a pleasure to visit your informative blog. I approach you to seek critique for the first chapter of my 105, 000 literary novel–A Saviour Reborn. I understand it is difficult for anyone to spare time for a stranger. But still somehow i feel you’ll not say `no’. I’m a well-placed journalist in India and this is my first novel.
Navin

By: pug breed

pug breed — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:13:32 +0000

You know This is so funny. just explains it all.

By: Kimberly Michalski

Kimberly Michalski — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:55:54 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to share this.

By: Jemma Messenger

Jemma Messenger — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:10:57 +0000

thankyou for the advice, by the way, i have writtena horror bok for a piece of homework whih my teacher says is brilliant but i think i can do better. what do you think??

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weekly wrap-up: #1 « Nemil — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:40:19 +0000

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By: Forrest Norcott

Forrest Norcott — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:32:22 +0000

This article was GREAT!!!! I am a prospective writer myself (14) i think that this article will help me and others like me get published for a long time.
Thanks for the advice,

Forrest Norcott

By: Jeffrey Moores

Jeffrey Moores — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:59:20 +0000

Fantastic. I love this no-nonsense approach. Thanks, Tommy. I’ve posted a link on my blog, http://wordsarehard.blogspot.com. Feel free to send me any other material you want proliferated. I’m a former literary agent turned literary consultant and will do what I can to help.

-Jeff Moores

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:10:45 +0000

THANK YOU!
I am within days of finishing my book, and realizing I have zero to no clue about next steps. Appreciate the clarification on the need for an agent.
Don’t know if you’re in the habit of writing back or interacting with comments, but if a book is in actuality a memoir, should you pitch it as a memoir or is it okay to pass it off as fiction? My desire is to do the latter mostly because the story is so personal and has so many painful elements, but I have a few concerns about the ‘stranger than fiction’ factor. (And a little bit of ‘this is my story’ pride kicking in.)
Anyway…thanks! If I can return the favor, let me know.
Vanessa
http://www.wideawakeinwonderland.com

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:29:38 +0000

Great advice here. Seen most of it before in other research of the process, but it is always worth repeating. The more I read stuff like this the more it all sinks into my brain and stays there.

And of course, if it weren’t for advice things like this I’d have absolutely no idea what to do. So thank you (and the many others too).