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I'm Jennifer Laughran. I'm a Senior Agent at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, representing great authors and illustrators….

By Jennifer Laughran
Based in United States of America
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First post on 2011-09-18

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What are your hopes for 2025?

I hope we all survive.

Hi Jenn! Have you ever subbed a client’s Project A to an editor at an imprint, gotten a pass, then subbed that same client’s Project B to another editor at that same imprint just a few months later? I wouldn’t think that would be a problem if the projects are different and the first editor passed, but I just wanted to ask.

That depends. (sorry! it always depends!)If the author has no particular relationship with anyone at that imprint, and we subbed one kind of book to Editor A, and didn't get very far (like, they passed, …

Let’s say a Big Five publisher acquired a wildly popular self-published YA novel. How quickly could they produce it and place it in mainstream stores like B&N and Target? Thank you!

Normally books take around 18 months to go from contract to book-on-the-shelf. (Sometimes longer -- sometimes a little shorter -- but I'd say 18 months is pretty standard.) 12 months would be quite quick. Shorter …