5 Writers Walk Into A Bar

[pbray]

Keeping the stereotypes alive, when writers get together, it's often in a bar, and this weekend was no exception. As we talked about the state of the industry and our careers, some of those present lamented the difficulty in finding the right agent--someone who is not only a skilled negotiator, industry-savvy and enthusiastic about your work, but also someone whose personality and business style meshes with your own.

Being happily represented by superagent arcaedia, I could not join in the laments but instead offered my beer-inspired realization that what the world really needs is a MATCH dot COM for writers and agents. It's so perfect, I can't believe no one has thought of this before.

Comments

[jlawrenceperry.livejournal.com]

I think your beer forgot how to implement a system that calculates manuscript quality on this matchmaking site....

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Well, we were assuming that the pool of entrants is made up of published authors who have never had an agent, or find themselves in need of a new agent.

So it's less about the query letter and sample writing pages, and more about "Is this client likely to become a super-stalker like my psycho ex?" or "When the agent says we'll live happily ever after, do they have the same vision of HEA as I do?"

Obviously if there'd been more beer, we would have elaborated on this idea.