Comments on: On the Fence http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/10/on-the-fence/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Kevin A. Lewis http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/10/on-the-fence/comment-page-1/#comment-36746 Wed, 09 Oct 2013 20:53:11 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=9274#comment-36746 All points valid, but if I were an agent, I’d never sail very far away from commenrcial viability as a compass point. There are agencies around town, (naming no names, of course) where they’ve gotten sso succesful that they don’t even THINK about sales when signing new material-you read about them fairly often in the PW Deals section, where one of their agents has just signed an epic saga written entirely in verse about (or worse yet, BY) a suffering 13-year-old kid struggling with bullies or something equally twee. I only wish they did followup stories like “Quixotic literary project sinks with all hands and the cook, no survivers…” I’m definitely on James Patterson’s page on this one.

]]> By: Regina http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/10/on-the-fence/comment-page-1/#comment-36745 Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:37:53 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=9274#comment-36745 Reading your process as you go through these close contenders is interesting. I’m sure that both of those writers would love to be represented by you, but writers truly should want the agent who falls in love with their (complete, polished) work.

That said, knowing that you are going into the manuscript wanting it to be a yes is so reassuring and satisfying. Somehow it makes the whole querying mess seem a little more positive!

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