Stupid Question # ...I've Lost Count
Feb. 17th, 2006 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
queenoftheskiesI have another stupid question for those more experienced in marketing novels than myself because I have a completed novel that I'm going to fatten up (believe it or not, it's NOT one of my trillion word novels) and query.
Do you feel that agents pigeon-hole writers with the first genre that they submit?
Let me explain why I ask.
You folks know I used to query screenplays. In screenwriting-land, if you write a great comedy, for example, and then write a great horror, it's hard to get folks to take it seriously because they know you as a great comedy writer already.
I wondered if the same was true in the publishing world.
Yes, I know that one can use pen names to write different genres. (In my case, it's different types of sub-genres. All spec fic.)
Are agents generally supportive of that? Or do they generally encourage you to stick with the first genre you submit?
Or is this another stupid question?
Do you feel that agents pigeon-hole writers with the first genre that they submit?
Let me explain why I ask.
You folks know I used to query screenplays. In screenwriting-land, if you write a great comedy, for example, and then write a great horror, it's hard to get folks to take it seriously because they know you as a great comedy writer already.
I wondered if the same was true in the publishing world.
Yes, I know that one can use pen names to write different genres. (In my case, it's different types of sub-genres. All spec fic.)
Are agents generally supportive of that? Or do they generally encourage you to stick with the first genre you submit?
Or is this another stupid question?
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