The Writing Room: What is a Literary Consultancy?

Increasingly, aspiring and even experienced writers find that publishers and agents cannot offer them the advice, attention, and editorial assessment that they seek. Publishers and agents are often too flooded with submissions to be able to offer more than a curtly anonymous rejection or even a flicker of advice.

The literary consultant is a new feature of the book industry, a professional who aims to bridge the gap by offering advice, editorial assesment and help.

They do not offer to place your book with a publisher, but rather to advise you on the marketability and the literary or commercial merits of your work.

For a full range services offered, see:

http://www.mckernanagency.co.uk/pp008.shtml