There's nothing like a new agency, eager for clients, when you're looking for someone to query.
That being the case, it's time to polish your queries and rev up your writing engines. Be ready to rumble on the first of December because that's the day when the Booker Albert Literary Agency is open for business.
The principles, Jordy Albert and Brittany Booker, come from the Maria Corvisiero Agency so they have some experience. They have clients, according to the list on their website, and you would of course want to check them out to see if that's the sort of thing you write.
Will the pair succeed?
Who can predict the future of publishing these days?
But if you write romance, it might be worth a try.
The agents have a track record you can verify, they have experience in agenting and they should have contacts in the publishing industry to get your manuscript into the hands of the people who buy those manuscripts. That makes a difference when you compare it to others who have started up agencies and can list only a love of reading as their qualifications.
The market is tight, you've probably heard, and with the merger of Random House with Penguin, and the likely combining of HarperCollins with whatever Rupert Murdoch can buy, it's only going to get tighter.
Maybe you'll stand a better chance if your agent is under pressure to make some sales to pay the bills on a new business. That's a good incentive to push manuscripts, and isn't that the attitude you'd want to see in your literary agent?
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