To people trying to get their books published, if you contact a literary agency and they ask to see your work,

You can continue to query. They get 100 project queries a day - they are not going to remember you. If you can, attend a writers' conference. You will get a chance to make a face to face contact with an agent and pitch your project. You are much, much, much more likely to be read this way than with a cold pitch.

My understanding is that you are free to query again on a different work.

I also understand that in the real world of agency, if the sample they saw was unutterably, unredeemingly awful, they may reject future queries without asking to see the material, because they believe you cannot write at a professional level.

This sucks for people who made the mistake of querying too early, when their skills were still under development, and who continued to improve until their work is now competitive.

I don't knmow for certain--However, writers tend to improve with practice, and the book market changes over time. It might well be that, at a later date, your skill at writing and your book proposal will be something that this agency thinks it can sell to a publisher. So I would keep trying.

Or, you could ask the agency itself if you may submit work to it for consideration in the future.

you will possibly desire to get your manuscript into an extremely comprehensive state and the two placed up it to small publishers or locate an agent to place up it to massive publishers. If a publishing company possibilities to print it you get money ahead and then royalties if it sells properly. you do no longer choose to self post. very almost no one makes money that way.

i dont know. great question though. im working on mine right now and was wondering the same thing. you could also self publish if all else fails.