Book Agent Blues

If you are one of the million writers that are attempting to land a book agent, I wish you the best. Rejection is hard to take, but when sending your query letter and writing credentials, you must always put your best foot forward. And I understand how you want to take that same foot and kick the prospective agent that pooh-poohed your email which was prepared with love and hope.

I keep an ongoing list of the agencies that rejected Volume I of my memoir. Keep in mind that certainly didn't prevent me from writing Volume II. Hey, a woman can dream.

What you see below is a PARTIAL list of the literary agents that rejected my book proposal. And worse yet, many of them asked for the first 100 pages, then had the audacity to say no thanks. Oh well. Life goes on - and there's a garden of agencies out there that just might pick me for their stable of writers.

In closing:
Ladies and gentlemen, I feel your pain. However, I must get back to my next revision and next batch of query letters. Move forward little soldiers, never give up the fight to see your book in print.

Becker, Laney
Bent, Jenny
Bijur, Vicky
Boyle, Katherine
Braun, Barbara
Carlisle, Michael
Choate, Mickey
Cirone, Paul
Collette, Ann
Concepcion, Cristina
Contardi, Bill
Cope, Eileen
Dawson, Liza
Donnaud, Janis
Dunham, Jenni
Epstein, Kate
Fairbank, Sorche Elizabeth
Finch, Dianna
Friedrich, Molly
Garrick, Kate
Geiger, Ellen
Gerwin, Karen
Ginsburg, Susan
Gluck, Suzanne
Kaplan, Elizabeth
Konner, Linda
Levine, Paul
Marsal, Jill
McCarthy, Jim
McClure, Cameron
McGowan, Matt
McKean, Kate
Megibow, Sara
Mervant, Christine
Nelson, Kristen
Palmer, Kristan
Ramer, Susan
Reid, Janet
Reiss, William
Rinaldi, Angela
Rostan, Stephanie Kip
Shannon, Denise
Skolnick, Irene
Somberg, Andrea
Stender, Uwe
Stoloff, Sam
Strothman, Wendy
Wales Lit Agency
Weinstein, Ted