Agent, Publisher, or Contest? Which would you choose?
Do you love to write? Do you write for publication? Do you dream of publication? If the answer to any of the above is yes, I guess my next question is which would you rather do, send a query letter to an agent, send a query letter to a publisher, or enter a contest? My first dream was to find an agent. Surely that had to be best - someone else who would do all the hard work of researching places my writing my fit, advertising it so the publisher knows it will fit, and making me sound good. After all, which writer really wants to blow her own horn? But then I learned that researching agents is just as hard as researching publishers, and feels just as much like applying for a job. Have you applied for a job recently? Then you probably know that feeling of applications disappearing into black holes with no reply. I began to suspect query letters go into the same black holes. So I gave up on option one and option two. But what about contests? No query letter. J...
