Does anyone know what Book Agents are looking these days from a new author?

by David J. Ashton
17th February 2015

Most new published authors' profiles these day's seem to read along these lines.

"After doing a degree in Creative Writing I went to work as a Milk Maid and spent twelve years working on a farm in Devon during which time I fell in love with a farmer and we had two beautiful children. It was then that I wrote my novel which is about a Milk Maid who'd spent twelve years working on a farm in Devon during which time she fell in love with a farmer and they had two beautiful children."

And therefore it's not really surprising that books on the shelves these days are all so insanely boring!

I think at some stage between 1980 and 2015 people lost the ability to use their imagination and book agents lost their ability to take a f*cking risk!

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Hi David, Yes, I've no doubt that there are some outstanding books out there that were written after 1980, not many but some, but most of them are utter rubbish. My question is, how do they all get published???

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I agree with you there Richard, but yet there are some books that are truly outstanding. Everyone has different tastes I suppose, but I wont lie when I go to a book shop I read the opening lines of about a dozen books before I find one that actually pulls me in. Now though I find myself looking through goodreads.com before I go shopping otherwise its a waste of time.

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