How do I get a literary agent? Is it even possible anymore? I

Go to a convention perhaps

>>9948671
Edit your query letter famalam.

On /t/ there's a Great Courses thread, if you do a little link-hopping you can find the series titled "How to Publish Your Book." Download it, watch it, and pay attention. Pretty solid advice, especially concerning the query letter.

Outside of that, try and get some short stories published. It's a means to an end, but it's also fun to enter contests and do the submission process yourself. Having published a thing or two lends you credibility.

If you're too lazy to do either of these things, you really have no business writing a novel in the first place.

>>9948754
what contests do you submit to? I write science fiction

I got asked to submit an entire manuscript (sent chapters before) to Pegasus Publishing. But I did some digging and found they might charge fees, be a vanity publisher, and so on. Pretty bummed because I had my hopes up, only 19 though

>>9948671
Just accept that you probably suck and should try something else.

>>9949015
Im not sure thats the proper variable for 'quality'

>>9949008
https://www.pw.org/grants

Set genre to sci-fi and search. Start with some stuff that's free/cheap to enter, they usually get fewer entrants and a lower overall level of competition. Work your way up from there.

Above all, EDIT THE QUERY LETTER. If you can't write a 1 page letter well, the agent has no reason to put his/her faith in your 200+ page manuscript.

Also, forgot to mention, agents really only care about 40,000+ word projects. Novellas should just be sent directly to boutique presses.

How do you start getting articles in magazines and the like? Do you just write something that's in their general field and send it to them?

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>>9948671
READ THIS
then read it again