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Writing agency

  • 09-12-2007 4:17pm
    #1
    spaceman1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭


    Hey,

    Im an unpublished writer was looking for agents online. I found one site and I was wondering if anyone has had experience with them before. Im just worried they arent trustworthy. heres the link

    http://www.wlwritersagency.com/?gclid=CNaYkdPFm5ACFQ6hQwodFRAn-w

    I hope someone has had experience with them.

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,560 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    An agent is a definite plus to have early in your career.

    Publishing houses receive thousands of unsolicited manuscripts every year and many are never read.

    JK Rowling didn't have an agent and her first Harry Potter was rejected by seventeen publishers. Celia Larkin had an agent and received a million euro advance for her first novel.

    ...says it all, really.


  • #3
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    DublinWriter wrote: »
    An agent is a definite plus to have early in your career.

    Publishing houses receive thousands of unsolicited manuscripts every year and many are never read.

    JK Rowling didn't have an agent and her first Harry Potter was rejected by seventeen publishers. Celia Larkin had an agent and received a million euro advance for her first novel.

    ...says it all, really.

    No doubt agents are great and extremely valuable but I think Celia Ahern's payout was due to who her Daddy was more than the quality of the writing. Melissa Hill writes the same sort of stuff and didn't get the same type of payout despite having an agent.

    That said, everything DW has said is correct. Shouldn't this post be in the Creative Writing forum? :)

    Oh, and on topic, I don't know anything about those people. Find out what authors they represent and you'll get an idea of their trustworthiness :)


  • #4
    SassyGirl_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭SassyGirl_1


    Sorry to be the bearer of bad news - but they do appear to be a con-job.

    They look at your script and then charge you to provide feedback.


  • #5
    paddywhacked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭paddywhacked


    r3nu4l wrote: »
    No doubt agents are great and extremely valuable but I think Celia Ahern's payout was due to who her Daddy was more than the quality of the writing. Melissa Hill writes the same sort of stuff and didn't get the same type of payout despite having an agent.

    :)

    Don't know much about this stuff usually but Melissa Hill is from down my way and I read recently somewhere that she signed a six-figure big-money deal too so having an agent obviously hasn't done her any harm! :D


  • #6
    spaceman1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭spaceman1


    does anyone know of a good agent I could send my work to?


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