Thriller 101 How to Impress a Literary Agent with Lori Galvin of Aevitas Creative Management
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3 BIG TAKEAWAYS
- What agents are looking for in a client
- Your first 5-10 pages
- What it's like working with an agent
EPISODE INFO:
Are you looking to land an agent in 2024?
In this episode, Aevitas Creative literary agent Lori Galvin is going to share the things you need to know if you want to grab an agent’s attention, both in your query letter and bio, but also when talking to an agent, and even those all-important first few pages.
She even shares something I hadn’t heard before from agents about what they’re really looking for in a client.
BIO:
Lori Galvin is a senior literary agent with Aevitas Creative Management. Previously she worked as an editor at Houghton Mifflin and America’s Test Kitchen. And, she also survived running a b&b in coastal Maine. She represents fiction (crime and book club) and select nonfiction (true crime, memoir, and food writing). A few of her clients include Kwame Onwuachi, Wanda M. Morris, and Sara Goudarzi.
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