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Help Please! Publishing in the US market from somewhere else

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GabrielOro

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Aug 13, 2024
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Hello everyone,

Despite not being from the US or any English-speaking country, my career started out with writing in English. I used to post to Reddit's short scary stories sub, and some of my work was picked up by an Asian publisher, gaining quite a bit of mileage. So I kind of built from there.

Recently, I finished writing "Titans of Kilica," a YA science fiction novel, and am beginning the dreaded agent search. However, I'm insecure about not being US-based. Is this going to be an automatic "no can do"? Are US agents open to representing an outsider like that? Has anyone here had any similar experiences? Thanks in advance.
 
Hi Gabriel,

I think you may have fallen thru the cracks here, can I suggest you post an intro using the “Welcome… I’m New Here” prefix. That will alert folk to you!

Just to answer your question. There’s no issue with NY-based agents representing non-US writers. In fact, it can be beneficial for the writer if their main market lies within North America.

Publishing is quite international in outlook, we don’t discriminate again non-locals!

My best – P.
 
I'm not based in America and I'm querying American and English agents. Having just been in the query trenches, agents never want to know where you're from. I recommend using somewhere like QueryTracker, it's so worth the money, and good luck! It's a numbers and time and luck game. If you have readers, let agents know. That'll grab some agents' attention :)
 

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