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I hate asking this question because the answer is always a bit unmotivating, but I will ask anyway. So, how did YOU get your agent?

Sorry for the delayed response, Richard. For some reason my notifications on this group are not set the way I thought they were and I keep missing them.

In any case, I found my agent by using Agent Query (http://www.agentquery.com), which is probably the best place to search for agents. Anything in print is already out of date as soon as you pick it up.

I used the Full Search option and selected the Fiction Genres that applied to my novel BREATHERS. However, you'll find more matches by selecting a single genre at a time for your search because if you select multiple genres, it only finds matches for agents who are interested in all of those genres, rather than one of them.

Then I'd go through the list of agents my search provided, find my A-list, B-list, and C-list, send off queries to them about 5 at a time, then when I exhausted that list, I'd do another search under another genre and start again.

I started searching back in June 2006 and it took me 15 months and 82 agents who said "no" before the 83rd agent said "yes." And after searching under horror, humor/satire, and offbeat/quirky, I eventually ended up finding her under commercial fiction.

Hope that helps. My apologies again for the delayed response. I'm happy to answer any follow-up questions either here or via my e-mail: scott@sgbrowne.com.

Good luck!