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May 05
2010
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Agent Matchmaking Program: Success!Posted by Karinya Funsett in Nonfiction , Market , AMP , Agents |
I'll admit that I was skeptical about the marketability of "another cancer memoir" when Valerie Reiss' book proposal first crossed my desk. There are so may of them out there these days, and memoirs by the non-famous are such a tough sell, and, and, and... then I read it. It's true that it was a cancer memoir. But it was a cancer memoir with a clever and charming voice, intelligent, well-written content, and a very unique angle. In fact, the proposal was so good that we didn't even need to edit it!
Valerie had queried agents on her own in the past, but hadn't made much headway. We offered to go to bat for her and her fantastic project via our agent matchmaking program, and in late January we sent out the first round of submissions.