Phoebe Morgan on The Honest Editor

Hello, thank you for reading and am so sorry you have had a rubbish time! Sending you good wishes. I hope things improve from now on. In my honest opinion, getting an agent for an existing series if it hasn't done well is going to be hard. You would be better off writing something new, and finding a new agent for that project. If that takes off, you never know, you may be able to revisit the backlist, but my advice is to move forward positively and write something else that you love. I'm not sure who the current series is with (John Murray in the UK and St Martin's in the US?) but you could ask your contacts there what promotional plans they have and whether they can help you to boost them, but in reality I think moving to something new will be a better route forward. You can go out to new agents with a new book idea, and then when you meet them you can talk through the backlist more. Sometimes you can get your rights back and self-publish, but I'd hold off on that for a while until you have your teeth into something else, and have started querying new agents with a new idea that you feel excited about. Does that help a bit? I am sure you can write something brilliant and new, and no harm in growing potatoes on the side :) Phoebe x