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Originally Posted by VydorScope
How would I find an angent? the few that I looked at all said "we do not except self pub"
I write fantasy set in the future (think Star Wars, but even more magic)
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I've actually never seen an agent that has such a statement in their profile - they only time I've seen that was with book bloggers. It may be done in order to "weed out" self-published books that don't matter. In general, the publishing industry doesn't consider a self-published book that hasn't sold many copies as even to have existed. In other words if you self-published an sold 200 copies it's not worth mentioning in the query letter because it says nothing other than the fact that you can actually complete a book.
But that is not your situation - you have sold 10,000+ books and I would suspect that ANY agent would see value in that (although if they were all at $0.99 they may not). And any agent that didn't find that compelling is not worth representing you. If there is an agent that you REALLY want, and they do have such a statement I would make my query letter say somethink like,
"Based on your profile, you mentioned you don't accept self-published books, but as I have sold 10,000 copies (netting $xx,xxx) and another xx copies for the second book in the series, it demonstrates a fan base that with the right marketing and distribution could be easily extended.
As to finding agents and writing queries. Here is my suggestions:
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Query Tracker
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Preditors & Editors
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Agent Query
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Subscribe to Publisher’s Marketplace - to see who is making deals
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AAR (Association of Author Representatives
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"US Literary Agents
Annual Directories of Agents and Publishers
* 201x Writer's Market Deluxe Edition
* 201x Guide to Literary Agents
* Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors, and Literary Agents 201x
Also...look at books that are similar to yours, and find the agents for those authors - they will normally be mentioned in the acknowledgements (Use Search inside the book - and type in "agent") or checkout the author's website as they may mention it there. You can also google the authors name & "agent" (or "represented") as the agent may have them listed as a client on their website, or there may be a press release that has both the agent and author posted online.