For over two decades, Jennifer Unter, founder of the Unter Agency, has helped new authors land deals with publishing houses. Besides the quality of the writing, it takes patience, persistence and a strategy to secure a contract with a literary agent.
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that the odds of working with a literary agent are 1 in 6,000, based on the number of inquiries one receives and the number of new authors the agent is looking to sign for the year.land deals “A lot of authors look at what’s happening with the biggest players, the best sellers or even the very popular series,” Unter shares. “They say, ‘Oh, well, Penguin Random House is doing this for that person. Why wouldn’t they do that for me?’ They don’t realize how many books are published, how many authors really get little to no publicity, and how much they have to do themselves.
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