: Does it matter which literary agents one contacts first? Novelists seeking a literary agent's representation are advised to prepare a long list of carefully chosen agents (e.g. genre matches are

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Novelists seeking a literary agent's representation are advised to prepare a long list of carefully chosen agents (e.g. genre matches are important), but to only contact a few at a time. The response or lack thereof of the first few could suggest, for example, that the query letter or first chapter should be improved before the next round of agents are contacted. Agents differ in many ways. (For example, some are narrower in their genre preferences; some respond in different ways; some want a synopsis and some don't; some want a long opening excerpt, some a short one and some none.) Do any of these make some agents better choices for the first batch, or might one as well choose them at random?

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