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Thank you for being wonderful people, and thank you for joining us.

CC Lira is a literary agent at Wendy Sherman Associates.

If you'd like to query CC, please refer to the submission guidelines at www.wsherman.com. Carly Waters is a literary agent at PS Literary Agency, but her work on this podcast is not affiliated with the agency, and the views expressed by Carly on this podcast are solely that of her as a podcast co-host and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, policies, or position of PS Literary Agency

Okay.

And then I started, I got, I had been approached by a literary agent, a guy called Rupert Heath, who worked...

He lived in Canada.

Um, and he wanted somebody on the ground.

Thank you for having me.

CC Lira is a literary agent at Wendy Sherman Associates.

If you'd like to query CC, please refer to the submission guidelines at www.wsherman.com. Carly Waters is a literary agent at PS Literary Agency, but her work on this podcast is not affiliated with the agency, and the views expressed by Carly on this podcast are solely that of her as a podcast co-host and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, policies, or position of PS Literary Agency.

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And that meant we spent a lot of our time talking about traditional publishing.

I've interviewed literary agents.

We've talked to traditionally published authors.

We've broken down querying, submission, finding representation, and what happens after you finally get that book deal, and we're absolutely going to keep doing that.

And there are writers who might use different publishing models for different books.

And I realized that if the mission of Thriller 101 is really to help you get your work out into the world, then I don't wanna pretend like there's only one way to do that, and that's what we're gonna explore in season four.

We're still gonna talk to literary agents.

We're still gonna talk to traditionally published authors.

And that to me was disappointing.

Another, not issue I had with it, but one of the people at the panel, his name is Todd, and he works at a literary agency.

He was very honest about this.

The man was so transparent and honest.

Bye.

Cece Lira is a literary agent at Wendy Sherman Associates.

If you'd like to query Cece, please refer to the submission guidelines at www.wsherman.com. Carly Watters is a literary agent at PS Literary Agency, but her work on this podcast is not affiliated with the agency, and the views expressed by Carly on this podcast are solely that of her as a podcast co-host and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, policies, or position of PS Literary Agency.

Thank you.

For any agents actually listening to the podcast, uh, we've said don't listen beyond a certain point, but if you are looking for an amazing, amazing, amazing intern at your literary agency, Alicia is wanting to get into agenting, and she is phenomenal.

As we've seen today, her eye is exceptional, so just putting that out into the universe.

Okay.

I really appreciate it.

CC Lira is a literary agent at Wendy Sherman Associates.

If you'd like to query CC, please refer to the submission guidelines at www.wsherman.com. Carly Waters is a literary agent at PS Literary Agency, but her work on this podcast is not affiliated with the agency, and the views expressed by Carly on this podcast are solely that of her as a podcast co-host and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, policies, or position of PS Literary Agency

Even when my first book was rejected 130 times, I was so poor, I was living on less than $5,000 a year.

I was doing ghostwriting for people through a famous literary agent, Sarah Donut, the Writer's Literary Agency.

But I never lost faith that one day I'd succeed at something because I continued to seek the right energy to harmonize with.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened had I stopped at the second or the eighth or the 20th rejection.