Or last week, either. Should we chalk it up to the summer slow-down and the Labor Day holiday? Publishers Marketplace failed to have any listing for debut fiction in the weekly collection of new publishing deals.
Robert Gottlieb and Kimberly Whalen of Trident Media made a very, very, very lucrative deal for Kat Martin, but the author is going to have to pen a trilogy of contemporary romance and another trilogy of historical romance for her publishers at Mira. Would such literary agents be interested in your manuscript? Keep in mind that Kat Martin made the New York Times bestseller list, and you, oh unpublished one, have not. You should probably be submitting to someone on a lower rung of the agent ladder.
Danielle Egan-Miller of Browne & Miller just sold a work of historical fiction. Seriously historical as far as age goes, you should know, in case you're thinking of submitting to her. Jeane Westin's novel is set in Elizabethan England, which is probably second in popularity after the Regency period. But again, Ms. Westin has been through this before.
For now, there's a drought of debuts, but there's not much point in giving up on submitting and writing. If you quit, then you can guarantee that you'll never get your novel published. All the authors with deals listed this week? They had to have been debut authors at the start of their writing careers.
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