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Recent Sales - Forthcoming Books Congratulations to our Authors!!! Food consultant Nancy Tringali Piho's MY TWO-YEAR-OLD EATS OCTOPUS: Developing Children's Palates So They'll Love To Eat Everything, teaching children to eat from a food-lover's point of view, to Bull Publishing, coming in 2009. Nutrition for the Soul founder Deanna Minich's CHAKRA FOODS, looking at how the foods we eat can help heal or enhance the powers of the chakras, to Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari, for publication in spring 2009. Film rights to Ron Hutchison's Andy Sweet adventure series (Andy Sweet and the $20 Gold Piece, Andy Sweet and the Runaway Airship, and Andy Sweet and the Ghosts of Petroglyph Canyon), in which a twelve-year-old boy outwits crooks while searching for the lost treasure of Jesse James, overcomes robbers who have hijacked a hot-air balloon, and saves a canyon filled with 5,000-year-old petroglyphs from a band of thieves, optioned to Antibody Films. Senior Writer for ESPN/BASS publications and photographer Robert Montgomery's HEAD WATERS: A THOUGHTFUL ANGLER'S SECRETS FOR BETTER BASS FISHING, providing in-depth information on topics such as bass behavior, weather, fishing strategies, best bass waters, and angler health and fitness, to Countryman Press ( a division of W. W. Norton & Company) for publication in spring 2009. What are editors looking for? When I ask editors what they're looking for, they tell me a variety of things. Many will say "a fresh new voice." Others might describe what they're looking for by naming authors they like. One editor said she was looking for "kickassitude." Every time I read a manuscript, I can feel my brain sorting through the virtual Rolodex in my head. Who would like this manuscript? Who has the audience for this book? Before I send out queries on behalf of my clients, I do research, ask questions, and make some educated guesses. Still it may all boil down to dumb luck and timing. One editor told me he reads 300 manuscripts before selecting 6 for his list. That's a very short list. Considering the fact that each of the 300 manuscripts was sent by an agent who believed in the book, those are scary odds. Placing a manuscript in front of an editor-- hoping he or she will be receptive to it--can feel a lot like playing the lottery. |
From Krista Goering 
Imagine just how many submissions an agent receives in a week. Now imagine that only six out of ten of them are properly formatted.