TRACKS, a novel in stories, is in search of a literary agent.
TRACKS takes place on a train traveling from Baltimore to Chicago. Each story is told from the perspective of a passenger on the train.
Although the stories stand alone, they become stronger when linked together. A secondary character in one story becomes the main character in another. Some stories offer new insights on others. The stories look at the decisions each character faces and how those decisions, as well as each character's interactions with the other passengers, alter the path ahead and cast past experiences and choices in a new light.
While entirely unique, TRACKS is similar in nature to Joan Silber's National Book Award finalist Ideas of Heaven: a ring of stories.
TRACKS has garnered promising feedback from a professional workshop and a number of serious readers. It was a semi finalist in the First Chapters Writing Competition -- one of the top 20 out of 2,675 novel entries.
Excerpts from TRACKS have been published, featured at The Baltimore Book Festival, read on National Public Radio, and have won awards. These excertps have been enjoyed by tens of thousands of readers and listeners.
After a year of revisions, and a good bit of success, TRACKS is polished and ready to submit to literary agents and publishers.
Contact author Eric D. Goodman to learn more about TRACKS and to request the manuscript. Just email him at edgewriter@gmail.com.
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Comments: 14
Yes, my approach is to first query agents I have a connection with. For example, agents I have met at conferences and social events. In fact, the agent I'm submitting to now is one I talked with two weeks ago at the Maryland Writers' Conference.
I have a list of about a dozen agents I have a connection with. If they fail, my next step is to study Jeff Herman's guide to agents and to look for the best fits for TRACKS.
Step three: pull hair and come up with a step four. But I hope I don't have to go beyond step one, or at most step two.
Although it takes forever, in my first step, when contacting agents I know, I plan to honor the "one at a time" approach. If I move on to step two, I'll consider sending out several queries at a time.
Have you played the query game?
Congrats on Tracks. Check out my article on agents and what they prefer - email or snail mail at http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976967932
Also check out http://www.agentquery.com
A fantastic updated list of agents with a search engine for each genre.
Lots of luck.
I'm also in search of an agent for two of my novels.
The advice I got from agents and successful novelists is not to do it one at a time, unless the agent asks for an exclusive look. I don't think any agents nowadays expect to be the only one looking at something unless that's explicit. On the other hand you're probably a good bit younger than me and can afford a little more time. Good luck.
BTW, have you started the next project yet?
Anthony, I'll certainly check out your agent article and the list -- thanks for sharing it.
Charles, yes, I can't stay still for long. I'm revising another draft I'd previously written. I'm trying to keep the "talk" focused on TRACKS since that's the one I want to place right now, but I'm hard at work on another that I expect to be pushing an another year or so.
Thanks!