Literary Agents - Listings Info


How To Get a Literary Agent

  1. Write a wonderful book. (If in doubt, get help).
  2. Make sure you know what agents are there to do. (They do this.)
  3. Develop an agent hunting strategy. (We suggest you do this.)
  4. Write a wonderful query letter. (If in doubt, see some hints and a sample).
  5. Write a wonderful synopsis. (Like this one.)
  6. Check your manuscript presentation. (Using this.)
  7. Then use our Literary Agents spreadsheet to select your targets
  8. Go for it!
  9. If you get lucky: congratulations!
  10. If you don't, then give us a call. We are here to help you succeed.

View our Literary Agent Listings

Click the image (right) to open our agent listings spreadsheet in Google Docs.

You can save the spreadsheet on your own computer, and customise it to your heart's content

If you want to post the spreadsheet online, please do - but please keep the links and references back to us. It's only fair. If you add content that you'd like us to share with others, please let us know and we'll try to make use of it. We will be constantly adding to the directory ourselves, so do keep checking back in.

Just one more thing - good luck!