Why I left my first agent (or did she leave me?)...

[author_aghoward]

If you'd like to know the answer to that teaser, I'm dishing the dirt (more like picking off lint balls) on a guest post over at Mindy McGinnis's blog, Writer, Writer, Pants on Fire, tomorrow.

Please join me there for some insights into when is a good time to throw in the towel with an agent and brave the big bad query waters again.

Comments

[green_knight]

(can't comment on the other post from this computer)

I think yours sounds like a textbook case - you want to write something your agent does not want to rep. That doesn't mean either of you is 'wrong' just that you have different and conflicting visions.

[author_aghoward]

Exactly. We just didn't fit. So we both had to move on. I still think the world of her, and always will, because she's the first agent who ever saw something worth going out on a limb for, and you just don't forget that kind of faith. ;-)

[green_knight]

I think it's like any relationship - if you realise that you're a bad fit, however fond you are of each other, it's time to go. Much better to part while you're still friends, and you can buy her a drink the next time you meet and have a great conversation about your respective successes, than to keep trying and end up hating each other.