From the course: Sell Your Novel to a Major Publisher

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Agent research tool #3

Agent research tool #3

- [Instructor] We talked about this earlier, but it's worth bringing up again. Publisher's marketplace located at publishersmarketplace.com is the leading online community for the publishing industry, nearly every major publisher and literary agency along with thousands of authors are members of Publisher's Marketplace. They have extensive databases of agents, editors, publishers, authors, publishing deals, reviews, and more. And the majority of the book deals that are made in the publishing industry are announced here. Plus you can also search for book deals from specific agents and see what they've sold recently, which means you can easily keep track of who is selling what kind of book to what kind of publisher. A deal announcement in Publisher's Marketplace looks something like this. Jessica Brody's The Chaos of Standing Still, about two strangers stranded in the Denver airport during a blizzard who accidentally swap phones, setting them loose on an unexpected, life-changing…

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