In this week’s installment of mediabistro.com’s “Pitching an Agent” series, Katharine Sands of the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency talks about the “premise envy” she suffers when it comes to fiction queries, given that most of her clients are nonfiction writers. Not that they’re anything to sneeze at: She’s the agent for a diverse portfolio of clients that ranges from XTC’s Andy Partridge to the husband-and-wife gynecology team of Shawn Tassone and Kathryn Landherr. Want to learn more about what she likes in a proposal? It just so happens she’s the author of Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent’s Eye, too.
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