James McGowan is an associate agent at BookEnds Literary Agency and also a children's book author. James represents a talented list of award-winning author and illustrators and his list focuses on illustrated projects for young readers and formats from board books to middle grade.
Two things that every success story has are PATIENCE and PERSISTENCE. James offers some opportunities of when to have each (give or take).
Patience:
- the standard pace of publishing
- agent/editor response times
- how many books your agent can submit at one time
- contracts and payments
- pub date and schedule changes
- sending new things to your agent
- acquisitions processes
Persistent:
- reading books that are currently being published
- writing new projects
- dealing with rejections
- sending new queries
- following up (abiding by query guidelines)
- growing your social media and marking prowess
- connecting with other writers and/or illustrators
- staying up to date about recent acquisitions
- learning and asking questions about the business
- not giving up
- reading!
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