Agent research
I’ve now sped through the first two books in Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments trilogy, and I’m really liking them. It’s good urban fantasy, and she doesn’t tell it through that annoying LOL-speak lens that a lot of YA authors are using nowadays. Also, those books have proven to me, beyond a doubt, that my Briar Rose idea is doable. If someone else can combine vampires, werewolves, fae, and ANGELS into a single mythology and get it published, then so can I. That is, in fact, exactly what Briar Rose is.
So in my enthusiasm, I looked up Clare’s website and poked around for a while today. Glad to know I’m not the only writer who composes soundtracks for her stories. She mentioned the name of her agent, so I decided to be a good little trying-to-get-published writer and went to the agent’s website. Barry Goldblatt Literary. I found their list of authors and found two I recognized right away: Holly Black and Libba Bray.
These happen to be two authors who I have developed a very high respect for in perusing the YA genre. This might be an agency I could pitch Shades to. (I know I could pitch Briar Rose, but I’d have to, you know, write it first 
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I also discovered that the publisher Simon & Schuster was also coming up a lot…but they don’t take un-agented stuff. Alas.
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What does ‘YA’ stand for?
Young Adult.