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BOOKS FOR WRITERS: Making The Perfect Pitch by Katherine Sands

Literary agent Katherine Sand’s book Making the Perfect Pitch offers a series of short articles and tips from top literary agents designed to help aspiring authors “catch a literary agent’s eye”. The chapter on “Pitching Collaborative Projects” is an informative and enlightening overview on the topic, but the short chapter on “How To Find and Contact an Agent” is too basic – most writers searching for agents will require more extensive detail on the subject.

This book is not a step-by-step guide on how to craft a pitch (the query letter, the synopsis, the book proposal); the book’s strength and value lies in the significant insider information provided by literary agents on what they look for in a pitch, their preferences, dislikes, and advice about pitching “do’s and don’ts”. You’ll get insights from 40 well-known and respected literary agents and experts, including Donald Maass, Jane Dystel, Michael Larson, Sheree Bykofsky, Jeff Herman, and Harvey Klinger.

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Posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 5:00 am.
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