First day of PicoWriMo

[julesjones]

It's the first day of the new session of PicoWriMo, a small comm on LiveJournal for those of us who like the idea of a month of community support in achieving writing goals, but aren't up to 50 kwords. I'm sad that I won't be taking part as I'm travelling for most of March, but hoping to get at least something done in the last week if I'm not too jet-lagged.

Alas, the thing I finished last time was the synopsis for a submission package. I had then located an agent who looked like the right agent for me, and prepped the package to submit to them. I discovered that I had to name some books that mine was like as part of the submission process, so will need to actually find and read some m/m/f contemporaries with middle class meets aristocrat. I was about to do that when the world, or at least the US, went to hell in a handbasket. The agent is non-binary and lives in the US...

Comments

[heleninwales]

I hope the rest of your travels go well. Good luck with finding similar books for the submission package.

[jhall1]

So anyone who produces something that's brilliant but utterly unique can forget about being published?! That would have been bad news for Susanna Clarke with "Piranesi", to take just one example.

[julesjones]

A lot of agents are using https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/ to manage their submissions, and it requires "similar books" in the standard form. I suppose you could try something vaguely in the ball park and go into more detail in your query letter, but it's going to be harder work reaching an agent.