Preditors and Editors ™
A guide to publishers and publishing services for serious writers
Special Addendum
ST Literary Agency PreContract Author Intake Form
ST Literary Agency has performed a top-level review of your submittal
package and we believe that you have potential.
However we are very particular about the authors that we choose to work
with. We would like to know more about you, and about the history of your
work, before we take the next step.
Below is our PreContract Author Intake Form (AIF). Would you please take a
minute and fill it out? This is NOT a contract or an Offer of Represenation.
Thank you again for your time. We understand what it takes to go through
this and we appreciate your working with us.
As always, we congratulate you on your achievements thus far, and we
encourage you to continue to follow your dreams.
Best regards,
The New Author Group
ST Literary Agency
p.s. We realize that you may be somewhat dismayed by the fact that most of
our conversations have thus far been electronic in nature. Please understand
that by doing so we are able to sift through more new writers more
efficiently. By keeping our intake costs down, we can represent more
authors. We hope you understand.
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ON YOUR REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE PLEASE PUT **COMPLETED AIF** in the subject
line
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This is the PreContract Author Intake Form (AIF) for ST Literary Agency.
If you have multiple projects, please profile the one you consider your
best. We will use that one to determine how to proceed with you. (We are
willing to handle multiple projects once we have accepted you).
ABOUT YOU:
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(please offset your answer from the question on the line
underneath the question)
What is your primary occupation? Many of our authors say "writer". Of course
you are a writer. What was your most recent "day job"? (If you are a
student, or a stay at home mom, that's fine too.)
What level of education did you complete?
What is your age? (Note: we are sorry but we cannot accept minors or authors
less than 18 years old.)
How long have you been writing? Briefly describe how you came to be a writer
and anything else that you feel may be helpful for your profile.
Please paste what you consider to be your professional author's bio here. If
you don't have one prepared yet, then just write up your background or paste
your resume.
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ABOUT YOUR WORK:
What is the exact title of the work you are submitting to us now?
Please state if your work is a manuscript or screenplay.
Are there any contributors or other authors that must be credited? If there
is any question on who owns the copyright bring it up NOW.
What Genre and Keywords do you think apply?
What other works do you think it is similar to?
What is the word count or page count? (We can help you do this if you need
our assistance).
What demographic target market do you think your work is targeted at?
Please describe any additional market research you have gathered?
Please paste the abstract/summary of your work here.
How many agents have you submitted to in the last year approximately?
What marketing have you done thus far?
What contests have you submitted to?
What Awards or Recognition have you or your work received?
How many other works do you have? (List them and describe them briefly
please).
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Whew, that's it. Thank you again for taking the time to give us a more
complete overview of yourself and your writing.
You should expect to hear more from us within 2-4 weeks. If we have any
further questions, we'll send you an email.
Best regards and best wishes,
The New Author Team
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