7 Best-Seller Elements To Make Literary Agents Want Your Book

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  • Instinct (previously published as Murder Games)

    • ASIN: B01M0CDHMG
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

    A criminal behavior expert teams up with an NYPD detective to track down a criminal in the novel that inspired the hit CBS TV series starring Alan Cumming.Dr. Dylan Reinhart wrote the book on criminal behavior. Literally: he's a renowned, bestselling Ivy League expert on the subject. When a copy of his book turns up at a gruesome murder scene-along... [Read More]

  • Novel & Short Story Writer's Market 2019: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published

    • UPC: 035313670787
    • ASIN: 1440354375
    • ISBN: 1440354375
    • Brand: Writer's Digest Books
    • Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books

    THE BEST RESOURCE FOR GETTING YOUR FICTION PUBLISHEDNovel & Short Story Writer's Market 2019 is the only resource you need to get your short stories, novellas, and novels published. The 38th edition of NSSWM features hundreds of updated listings for book publishers, literary agents, fiction publications, contests, and more. Each listing includes co... [Read More]

  • Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel (George Smiley Novels Book 1)

    • ASIN: B0081KYXQ8
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies. John le Carré’s new novel, Agent Running in the Field, is coming October 2019. "Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on your drawing boards."George Smiley is no one's idea of a spy—which is perhaps why he's such a natural. But Smiley apparently made a mistake. After a rou... [Read More]

  • Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

    • ASIN: B0180T2YZQ
    • Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press

    Following on the heels of Lisa Cron's breakout first book, Wired for Story, this writing guide reveals how to use cognitive storytelling strategies to build a scene-by-scene blueprint for a riveting story. It’s every novelist’s greatest fear: pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into writing hundreds of pages only to realize that their story h... [Read More]

  • Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents 2017: Who They Are, What They Want, How to Win Them Over

    • ASIN: 1608684040
    • ISBN: 9781608684045
    • Manufacturer: New World Library

    Still the Best Guide for Getting PublishedIf you want to get published, read this book!Comprehensive index lists dozens of subjects and categories to help you find the perfect publisher or agent.Jeff Herman’s Guide unmasks nonsense, clears confusion, and unlocks secret doorways to success for new and veteran writers! This highly respected resourc... [Read More]

  • War of the Spark: Ravnica (Magic: The Gathering)

    • ASIN: B07GVPZBDZ
    • Manufacturer: Del Rey

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Experience the first official adventure in Magic: The Gathering’s multiverse in nearly a decade as the ultimate battle begins on Ravnica. Teyo Verada wants nothing more than to be a shieldmage, wielding arcane energies to protect his people from his world’s vicious diamondstorms. When he’s buried alive in the aft... [Read More]

  • Guide to Literary Agents 2018: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published (Market)

    • UPC: 035313669736
    • ASIN: 1440352666
    • ISBN: 1440352666
    • Brand: Writer's Digest
    • Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books

    No matter what you're writing--fiction or nonfiction, books for adults or children--securing a literary agent will help you get the best book deal possible from a traditional publisher. With listing information for more than 1,000 agents who represent writers and their books, Guide to Literary Agents 2018 will be your go-to resource. This updated e... [Read More]

  • Eleventh Hour (An FBI Thriller Book 7)

    • ASIN: B000OCXJMU
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

  • Guide to Literary Agents 2019: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published (Market)

    • ASIN: B07HGFY9XQ
    • Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books

    THE BEST RESOURCE AVAILABLE FOR FINDING A LITERARY AGENT No matter what you're writing--fiction or nonfiction, books for adults or children--you need a literary agent to get the best book deal possible from a traditional publisher. Guide to Literary Agents 2019 is your go-to resource for finding that literary agent and earning a contract from a rep... [Read More]

  • The New Fuck You (Native Agents)

    • ASIN: 1570270570
    • ISBN: 1570270570
    • Manufacturer: Semiotext(e)

    A unique and provocative anthology of lesbian writing, guaranteed to soothe the soulful and savage the soulless. Includes Adele Bertei, Holly Hughes, Sapphire, Laurie Weeks, and many more.Borrowing its name from the notorious '60s Ed Sanders magazine, Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, the editors have figured a way to rehone its countercultural and... [Read More]

  • The Heist (Fox and O'Hare Series, Book 1)

    • ASIN: B00AD6P44I
    • Manufacturer: Bantam

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Janet Evanovich, #1 bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, bestselling author and television writer for Monk, comes the first adventure in an electrifying series featuring an FBI agent who always gets her man, and a fearless con artist who lives for the chase.  Nicolas Fox is an ... [Read More]

  • Poison Fruit (Agent of Hel)

    • ASIN: 0451470168
    • ISBN: 0451470168
    • Manufacturer: Ace

    And that hot-as-Hel series with the “Sookie Stackhouse type of vibe” (Paranormal Horizon) is back—but this time the paranormal Midwestern town of Pemkowet is feeling a frost in the air and the residents are frozen in fear....The Pemkowet Visitors Bureau has always promoted paranormal tourism—even if it has downplayed the risks (hobgoblins a... [Read More]

  • Writing the Breakout Novel: Winning Advice from a Top Agent and His Best-selling Client

    • ASIN: B00506WXJA
    • Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books

    Take your fiction to the next level!Maybe you're a first-time novelist looking for practical guidance. Maybe you've already been published, but your latest effort is stuck in mid-list limbo. Whatever the case may be, author and literary agent Donald Maass can show you how to take your prose to the next level and write a breakout novel - one that ri... [Read More]

  • The Hostage (A Presidential Agent Novel Book 2)

    • ASIN: B000SEI7EY
    • Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

    W. E. B. Griffin’s #1 New York Times bestselling series finds Presidential Agent Charley Castillo in the middle of an investigation into kidnapping, assassination, and even political scandal in this action-packed thriller.U.S. Army Special Forces Major Charley Castillo is tasked with a discreet mission by the President himself: to investigate th... [Read More]

  • Novel & Short Story Writer's Market 2017: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published

    • UPC: 035313667008
    • ASIN: 1440347751
    • ISBN: 1440347751
    • Brand: Writer's Digest
    • Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books

    The best resource for getting your fiction published!Novel & Short Story Writer's Market 2017 is the only resource you need to get your short stories, novellas, and novels published. As with past editions, Novel & Short Story Writer's Market offers hundreds of listings for book publishers, literary agents, fiction publications, contests, and more. ... [Read More]

  • Flight: A Novel

    • ASIN: B00FEZ25IQ
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

    From the National Book Award–winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the tale of a troubled boy’s trip through history. Half Native American and half Irish, fifteen-year-old “Zits” has spent much of his short life alternately abused and ignored as an orphan and ward of the foster care system. Ever since his mothe... [Read More]

  • The Spectator Bird (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: B0023ZLLE4
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • The Other Woman: A Novel (Gabriel Allon)

    • ASIN: 0062834940
    • ISBN: 0062834940
    • Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

    #1 New York Times Bestseller#1 USA Today  Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerA Kirkus Best Book of 2018A Real Book Spy Best Thriller of 2018From Daniel Silva, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author, comes a modern masterpiece of espionage, love, and betrayalShe was his best-kept secret … In an isolated village in the mountains of ... [Read More]

  • Double Indemnity

    • ASIN: B004G606NA
    • Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

  • The Harry Palmer Quartet

    • ASIN: B00D0VYDCM
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins

    The first four ‘Secret Files’ from the master of fictional espionage, Len Deighton, containing the international exploits of Britain’s uber-cool sixties spy, Harry Palmer, together in one e-bundle for the first time.When Len Deighton wrote THE IPCRESS FILE, HORSE UNDER WATER, FUNERAL IN BERLIN and BILLION-DOLLAR BRAIN he not only reinvented s... [Read More]

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