Rebecca Pratt Literary Group

Richard Cummings' IBO LANDING has been selected as winner of the Eaton Literary Agency's Annual Book Length Prize for 2008 given to un-published literary manuscripts.
Congratulations to Geoff Nelder whose EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEE has won a Top Ten Finalist award in the category of best science fiction novels of 2008 in the Preditors & Editors poll.

Welcome to our agency

We love books. We love reading them, writing them, editing them and helping them get into print. We have eclectic tastes and are open to manuscripts of almost any genré.

Before you send us your manuscript you MUST understand a few facts:

Writing a book is the easy part; selling it to a publisher and then to a market is very much harder.
We choose to represent authors who have the skills to write, the discipline to do the work, and the willingness to work with us to make the product marketable. Your query may be your only chance to prove that you are client material so read all of our information before submitting a query.
While we are not traditional in that we make every effort to remain open to new writers and that we accept submissions by e-mail, we are traditional in what we expect to see in a query. You will impress us more with a good query letter than with a well-written novel. A lot of people can write well while very few are tenacious enough to do what it takes to become a published author.
Simultaneous queries to multiple agencies or publishers are frowned upon, but we understand why authors do it. We will read your query but if we ask for additional material we will accept it only if we are the exclusive readers at that level. In return we will promise a rapid turn around (understanding that at least two readers in our agency will be reviewing your work and that it takes each an average of 12 hours to read a manuscript--and that we receive more than one query per day which we also must read and evaluate). All of this is in addition to the actual work of servicing our signed clients.
We want to do a good job since our success as an agency is entirely dependent upon our ability to recognize and sign quality authors. We can not do it without your help and full cooperation.

ALWAYS QUERY FIRST

We NEVER charge reading fees for considering work, nor do we charge for standard copyediting of accepted submissions.
We are not reading children's books, plays, poetry or scripts at this time.
We DO NOT represent previously published books (If it has an ISBN do not submit)
Send queries as email text only--we do not open unsolicited attachments.
Do not send queries to any address other those indicated on this page.

Open Letter From Rebecca Pratt

We offer this discussion of the need for and value of an agent for your continuing education.

The Magic Focus That’ll Get You an Agent

by David Ryback, Ph.D. (who is one of our authors).

David provides a very good evaluation of the obligatory query letter and how to use it to best effect when seeking an agent for your project.

We wish you good luck in your search.

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