MaudNewton.com’s Secret Agent makes an appearance this weekend in David Milofsky’s Denver Post article about the realities of searching for a literary agent.
Milofsky provides a helpful glossary for decoding literary agents’ rejections. Some selections:
Interesting – Boring
Has potential – Amateurish
Moving – Show it to Mom
Needs work – Hopeless
Mid-list – Won’t sell
Poetic – Insomniacs only
Cinematic – Unreadable
Marketable – People will buy anything
A new installment of Ask The Secret Agent will appear very soon. Questions should be sent to thesecretagent [at] maudnewton.com.