Find a literary agent  Corresponding with literary agents to find the right literary agent to represent your work takes a lot of time.  You want a literary agent to handle the business of writing, but paradoxically, looking for an agent puts you into the business of writing, which steals time from your work and wears on the creative side of your brain.

Make finding a literary agent easier  What you need most is organization.  You need organized lists of literary agencies and agents.  Then you need to organize a set of documents to send to the agents—because the type of query they want varies from agency to agency.  And once you start sending your queries, you need to organize records of your submissions and other correspondence. Otherwise, you will lose track of your contacts, waste time on unresponsive agents, query another agent in the same agency and quash your chances, or waste months of time in other ways.

1000LiteraryAgents.com can help  Here you will find help for your dealings with literary agents.  There are two levels of help:

Basic Guide to Literary Agents

It does not cost anything to view the guides to agents.  You can browse through the lists of agents and agencies or you can find literary agents using an advanced search.

Basic Membership  To see all the information in the guides, you need to register for the free basic membership.  Your sign-up information is absolutely confidential.  You will not be bombarded with emails from 1000LiteraryAgents.com.  The chief reason you must register before seeing the agents' email addresses and web addresses is to protect the agents from spam, which hurts the chances of serious writers to get an agent's attention.

Advanced Help for Finding an Agent

• Keep selected literary agents in "My Literary Agents".  Not all agents are right for you.  Keep the right ones in a list.
• Track submissions to literary agents.  You won't forget who, when, and what with easy record keeping.
• Store templates for query letters and other correspondence in "My Documents".  Eliminate retyping.
• Automate queries and correspondence.  Choose an agent, click the "Auto-Fill" button—your document is ready to go.
• Keep notes on literary agents.  Give your creative mind a break—let your computer remember what they said.
• Keep notes on your submissions and correspondence.  Let your computer remember what you said and when.
• View additional information, e.g., the status of your submission.  Organized information will simplify your search.
• Print or email documents and automatically keep records.  Quit making notes—get back to writing.
• Track agents not listed on 1000 Literary Agents.  Add the agents to your private list.