As you can tell I don’t post nearly enough blogs to answer questions that come through this website. And that’s because I lead a very busy life. Being an agent means shaking a few trees everyday and constantly keeping in touch with clients and publishers. If you don’t do that you don’t make deals which essentially means you aren’t paying rent this month!! Many people think the life of a literary agent means you make a whole lot of cash and dine in all the best restaurants. That is not accurate for non-agencies. Freelance literary agents like myself have to source clients all the time and go through a lot of hell when it comes to submissions. I opened up my page again this year to see what I would get in terms of people following the rule. And lo and behold people STILL don’t read. How do you expect publishers to read your work if you can’t? I received 4 pitches through the comment section. Guess what. I don’t read pitches when they aren’t submitted properly. And to emphasize this I recently gave an interview in Writers Digest. Here it is. READ IT
That being said, I have added some great books to my sold section so far this year including my own- Winter Walk and I will have a separate page for that little item. And no it’s not a sports book. It’s actually poetry. Very good poetry if I do say so myself. And NO I do not sell poetry to publishers for anyone so don’t send me poetry submissions.
However if you like poetry that is a little different, then here is a sample.
http://contraposition.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/and-can-it-be-by-brain-wood/
http://www.madswirl.com/content/poetryforum.html
http://contraposition.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/undercover-boss-by-brian-wood/
Oh yes, and I got married to my publicist Rachel Sentes- http://www.gal-fridaypublicity.com/ So that was pretty exciting. Here is a photo below- so yes it is a busy year.
July 27 2013 at the Beach House in Vancouver, B.C
So what am I doing right now? Well I’m currently in Toronto scoping out new projects and new book deals and meeting with publishers. So if you have something you think that I might be interested in looking at please follow the submission guidelines to the LETTER. ( Read link above again) and perhaps you will hear from me.
Brian J Wood- Literary Agent 