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Friday, December 11, 2009

In honor of Happy Agent Day and reaching 60 followers...an Ode to Sarah Davies

I figured I'd weigh in.
Nope. I don't currently have an agent, though I did have an amazing agent once who I hold in the highest esteem.

It's simple. We NEED agents. We WANT agents. And agents have to deal with lots of whining from the writing community. But I am not going to whine. As a design professor who is in the position to judge the merits of other's work, I can sympathize with agents and their plight.

So instead of praising agents wholesale as a group, I am going to single out ONE AGENT who is not my agent or even close to becoming my agent. But this particular agent has treated me with absolute kindness and fairness and given me amazing advice. She has a blog where she treats other striving authors with the same kindness.

That would be the wonderful Sarah Davies of Greenhouse Literary.

SO this post is for you, Sara, in celebration and appreciation of your awesomeness. I don't know if I'll ever be lucky enough to become your client, but even still, just knowing there are agents like you out there gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

I raise my coffee cup to you, Sara Davies, agent extraordinaire!

here's the link to her blog:

http://www.greenhouseliterary.com/index.php/site/sarahs_blog

8 comments:

  1. Sarah sounds wonderful - I envy you! ;-)

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  2. Hi Shannon! No need to envy me. Sarah's not my agent! I WISH she was, but that's about where it's at right now for me. :)

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  3. Sarah sounds great. Thanks for the post and congrats on 60!

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  4. I love that...She sounds amazing. As do you!

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  5. I will check her out! She sounds simply divine.

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  6. She is, Terresa. Should be at the top of everyone's query list. (whoops! more competition for me!). Oh, well. :)

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