Chapter 62: How to look for an agent

Autumn took a deep breath. She didn’t want to admit the way she did it. She tried the textbook answer first. “You go to conventions and things, places you’re supposed to meet agents. You talk to them, try to sell them on the idea. Then, if they ask, you send them the first fifty pages. Or, you can look at who represents the authors you like and that your book is similar to. Then you write them query letters.”

“Is that how you did it?”

She let out her breath. “No. It’s not.”

“How’d you do it?”

“I did a search, wrote down every agent I could find that represented anything similar to what I write. Then I wrote about fifty different letters, synopses, and sample chapters and sent them all out at once. When someone expressed interest, I investigated more deeply.”

“Is that the better option?”

“I don’t think so. I got really lucky.” She laughed. “But then again, I am lazy, and the so-called ‘right’ ways to do it seemed like way too much work for me.”