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Choose five authors whose work is like yours. (see below for some tips on how to do that) We'll tell you who represents each one - and everything we know about that agent. With a few exceptions, we'll include the agency report as well. If we can't hit on at least three of the five, we'll return your money.

If you happen to strike one or more of the major players (go to Dead Reckoning to see who they are and how much data we have on them) you may get reports of ten or more pages covering eighty, ninety, or a hundred clients.

This is almost always cheaper than buying the reports individually. Your call.

HOW TO CHOOSE YOUR FIVE AUTHORS LIKE ME.

Think long and hard about the particular book you're hoping to sell right now, and come up with a list of similar books by other authors.

Diet books are one kind of cook book, French haute cuisine another. Yours may be completely new, but it will have a rhythm and an approach that makes it either a book in the Julia Child tradition of serious discussion of techniques and ingredients, or be much more an example of short ingredient lists and straight-forward directions designed to appeal to lovers of the frugal gourmet or Rosie.

• If you write mysteries, are they "cozies" in the old Agatha Christie tradition, procedurals like Ed McBain's 87th precinct stories, or an examination of characters and corpses in the manner of Patricia Cornwell?
• If you're writing non-fiction, perhaps a story of something you yourself lived through, is it an action adventure in which you nearly lost your life or at least a couple of limbs - say something like Jon Krakauer's INTO THE WILD, or an exploration of inner space such as Shirley McLaine's OUT ON A LIMB?
• Is your horror novel like Stephen King's, or more like some other favorite writer in the genre?
• Is your thriller a cerebral John Le Carre or a tightly plotted Robert Ludlum?
• Is your literary novel a wide canvas examination of the human condition like something by Graham Greene or Ayn Rand or a dissection of one set of human interactions in the manner of Anna Quindlen or Maeve Binchey? Maybe a little of both … something like John Updike's work, perhaps.

Of course every author's voice is unique, but if you can find parallels and symmetries, the echoes of a similar voice and style, the fingerprint can be enormously informative.

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