That's fantastic news! Strange Chemistry has a great stable of authors, you're in good company there.
I saw your press release earlier. It sounds like a great book!
I saw your press release earlier. It sounds like a great book!
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I sent a query to Brittany Booker today, and I'm waiting to hear back. I'll keep you updated. In the meantime, does anyone have any advice for a 19-year-old first-timer who's trying to break into the market? At the risk of sounding cocky, I will say that I know I'm a good writer. I've been doing it my whole life, and I recently completed my first novel (a fantasy, a little over 130,000 words). So, any pointers?
I sent a query to Brittany Booker today, and I'm waiting to hear back. I'll keep you updated. In the meantime, does anyone have any advice for a 19-year-old first-timer who's trying to break into the market? At the risk of sounding cocky, I will say that I know I'm a good writer. I've been doing it my whole life, and I recently completed my first novel (a fantasy, a little over 130,000 words). So, any pointers?
I sent a query to Brittany Booker today, and I'm waiting to hear back. I'll keep you updated. In the meantime, does anyone have any advice for a 19-year-old first-timer who's trying to break into the market? At the risk of sounding cocky, I will say that I know I'm a good writer. I've been doing it my whole life, and I recently completed my first novel (a fantasy, a little over 130,000 words). So, any pointers?
Jordy is now my agent. So far, so good. Excellent communication and keeps on top of things. Not much else to say this far, we just signed about a month ago. I WILL say that when it comes to revising a manuscript before submitting, she seems to know her stuff (with a MA in English, I would hope so). She gave me a list of excellent notes that I am implementing now. She also has given me a brief plan of action, which was good.
Once we get to the submission stage, I'll let you know how it goes. She's very nice.
So now I can tell! Finally!
Jordy Albert got me a 'nice' deal from Strange Chemistry Books! We made the deal in November, but we had to coordinate the announcement and with the holidays, it all came down to TODAY.
So yes, this agency makes deals. SCB is the YA imprint of Angry Robot, based in the UK but distributed in the US by Random House.
They are an agent-only (except during Open Door times), advance-paying, SFWA market-qualifying publisher.
Jordy did a great job with the deal and I am an EXTREMELY HAPPY CLIENT!!!
it's officially on the site now: http://www.thebookeralbertagency.com/about-us.html
His email is forthcoming, but you can still query him using the [email protected] , just put 'Steve' in the subject line if you want him to read it.
My first bit of advice is that you're raising the hurdles several feet higher by starting out with something over 100K words. I say this from experience, as someone who busted his hump doing the same thing. My first novel is still 146K, but I ended up publishing it myself. The ones I'm trying to sell now are in a safer word count range.
It's not impossible to sell a 130K debut novel, but it does make an already difficult process more difficult.
I've been watching their sales, and it seems like it's almost all digital. Does this mean I wouldn't be able to find any of the books sold by The Booker Albert Agency in regular bookstores?
There are a lot of people around here who have more experience that I do, so I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but if they're digital-only, then yes, you wouldn't be able to find any of those books in brick-and-mortar bookstores. That said, I haven't seen contracts for any of those imprints, so it's possible that they have print clauses built in if the works reach certain sales thresholds.
Hmm, they don't seem to say they're digital, but it seems like, whenever I click on a book cover, it brings me to a Kindle eBook.
Thank you for the information.
Jordy sold to Strange Chemistry Books, my now defunct print publisher. So there's at least one that was going to be print until Strange Chemistry went bye-bye back in June of this year.