literary-agents – Britnie Jenkins

March 2025 Update

For the entire month of February, I kept telling myself that I needed to get a blog post up. Then I blinked and all of a sudden, it was March? Did that happen to anybody else? Toward the end of January, I decided that it would be easier on my writing schedule if I movedContinue reading “March 2025 Update”

Comp Titles.

I’ve known for a while that one of the weakest sections of my query letter is where I mention comparison titles–or comp titles. Part of the query needs to tell the literary agent exactly where the book would sit on the shelves at a bookstore, and one of the ways to do this is byContinue reading “Comp Titles.”

Encouragement. Part 2.

Attention, readers! I’m putting new blog rules into place. One of the things I talked about in my last post was about how giving up isn’t an option–and a piece of advice I’ve heard often is that in this industry, persistence tends to win out. Therefore, we persist. What better way to do that thanContinue reading “Encouragement. Part 2.”

Rejection. Part 4.

Last week, I got the chance to attend another author event! This time for an author I deeply admire, and whose work I’ve been reading for quite some time. During the discussion and Q&A portion, one of things she said was that in order to be a writer, you really have to have faith andContinue reading “Rejection. Part 4.”