Researching Agents

How does a writer go about finding an agent. Here is a short list of sites Author Jill Corcoran compiled for the SCBWI Agent Workshop she held in Bakersfield, CA last fall in 2009:


Websites for researching Agents:

• AgentQuery : http://www.agentquery.com/default.aspx
• Absolute Write: http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/
• Verla Kay’s Message Board: http://www.verlakay.com/boards/index.php
• Writer’s Digest Guide to Literary Agents Blog http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/
• Literary Rambles (Agent In-Depth Reviews) http://caseylmccormick.blogspot.com/
• 1000 Literary Agents http://www.1000literaryagents.com/literary-agents-us.php

Other Blogs that might be helpful--

http://caseylmccormick.blogspot.com/2009/05/researching-literary-agents-part-i.html

http://caseylmccormick.blogspot.com/2009/05/researching-literary-agents-part-ii.html

http://caseylmccormick.blogspot.com/2009/07/researching-literary-agents-part-iii.html

http://caseylmccormick.blogspot.com/2009/08/agent-spotlight-jill-corcoran.html

Check out the agent (or publisher) before you query:

Preditors and Editors: http://www.anotherealm.com/prededitors/pubagent.htm

There are lots of agent interviews, vlogs, blogs, twitters, etc all over the net. Google them and have fun researching.  You can find them on author's websites as well.

Hope this helps!

I found this information on Jill Corcoran Books' blog.