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INSIDE AGENTING

Leading New York literary agent Richard Curtis shares the secrets and strategies of his profession in his new blog, INSIDE AGENTING

INSIDE AGENTING explores such topics as…

  • Does your agent have the right stuff?
  • How agencies handle your money.
  • How agents deal with authors who screw up.
  • How agents “bend the truth.”
  • How publishers calculate whether your book is worth buying.
  • Do literary agents have to be licensed?
  • Why favors are a valuable form of currency.
  • Why agents read every word of boilerplate.
  • Your agent is your editor: how agents have taken on tasks once handled by publishers.
  • How agents get money out of delinquent publishers.
  • When agents push and when they ease up.
  • What happens if your publisher goes bankrupt.
  • The crazy things agents do to keep clients happy.
  • What to do if your agent dies.
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