Help Please! Publishing in the US market from somewhere else

[GabrielOro]

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.

 

[GabrielOro]

Any thoughts, anyone?

 

[AgentPete]

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.

 

[RK Wallis]

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