This Week in the Mercury
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Books Be an Agent for a Day!
Posted by Unpaid Arts Intern on Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:30 PM
posted by Arts Intern Matthew Vollono
A rather well-known literary agent at Curtis Brown LTD has put together a contest placing you—the starving writer prone to drunken rants over the miserable state of the publishing industry and its ignorance of the Great American Novel currently taking up valuable real estate on your hard drive—in the position of literary agent. For one week contestants will pick through a real-life slush pile of agent queries from both published writers, and those losers aspiring to be published writers. Whichever contestant picks the most successful queries will be the winner.
There's no word yet as to what the winning prize will be (landing an agent, possibly?) but judging from the 104 comments posted to the website, there is no shortage of people who are interested in taking part in this.
The nuts and bolts of the contest are a bit complicated, so I'll spare you the regurgitation and just shoot you over here .
photo courtesy of MSNBC
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