Literary Agent Interview: Kaitlyn Johnson | When to Query & the Realities of Submission | iWriterly

LITERARY AGENT INTERVIEW: KAITLYN JOHNSON | WHEN TO QUERY & THE REALITIES OF SUBMISSION | iWRITERLY // Literary agent Kaitlyn Johnson of the Corvisiero Literary Agency answers our questions on:

• An overview of what a typical day looks like as a literary agent
• What an editorial agent is
• How many clients are agents acquiring each year and how it differs between established and up-and-coming agents who are looking to build their lists
• What goes into the decision to represent an author
• At what point do agents determine if a book is ready and want to offer representation
• What things are agents willing to work on with writers (editorially) prior to submission and what should writers have done/polished in advance of querying
• How much does author platform play into an agent's decision to represent an author OR a publisher’s decision to take on their book
• Author platform essentials
• Submission: How agents prepare, what materials they send and when, communication styles, how many editors they submit to at a given time, and more
• What to do when it looks like a manuscript won't be picked up during submission
• How involved are agents in the creation of a new manuscript
• Defining success for a literary agent
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// ABOUT KAITLYN: //
After receiving a BA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College, Kaitlyn refused to leave the concept of nightly homework behind. As well as being a junior agent for Corvisiero Literary Agency, she is also a freelance editor at her own company, K. Johnson Editorial, and has worked as a copyeditor for academic publisher codeMantra, a YA editor for Accent Press, and a Conference Assistant for GrubStreet, Boston. She has written various articles for Writer's Digest and has had a flash fiction story published in the anthology A Box of Stars Beneath the Bed.

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Literary agency: https://www.corvisieroagency.com/kaitlyn-johnson.html
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