Too Many Choices

 

Literary agents. I never realized how many existed out there! Finding an agent is like trying to select an ice cream flavor at Baskin & Robbins. As you peer down into the deep wide freezer box, you are overwhelmed by the limitless possibilites. And I, being slightly commitment-phobic, balk a bit at "limitless possiblities".

You must choose one, Kaeli.

But I don't want to choose just one! And, what if the one I choose is the wrong one!

True, literary agents themselves help limit your options by listing what they will and WILL NOT represent. But, that too is extremely disheartening. Far too many agents want middle-grade literature, but NOT fantasy middle-grade literature. And what can I do?! Transport all my dwarves, fairies, and princesses to modern day? I think not.

As they (still not sure who "they" is?) say, nothing worth doing is ever easy. Finding an agent is more trouble than actually writing the manuscript. And crafting a query letter BETTER than your novel...well, let's not even traverse that tangent.


Novel update: 9 weeks until deadline. I'm mapping out what still needs to be accomplished. Several more scenes are still waiting to be written and added (which will hopefully give me my desired 200 pages). I'm starting to feel a little nervous... As Willy Wonka put it: "So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it.".