Literary Management Quotes

I have an agent, John Brockman, who is an agent to many academic authors like Dan Gilbert and Steven Pinker, and he's very good at conning academics into writing books. He pulled this trick on me.

Probably because I really love this bookmaking and storytelling world, I'd been thinking for years about the possibility of becoming a literary agent.

I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.

I sold 'Hattie Big Sky' without an agent but quickly realized a writing career required an agent.

No, I don't have an agent. I'm hoping to get one soon.

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

'Ruined' was a play which was somewhat of an anomaly in that I did not take a commission until it was finished because I really wanted to explore the subject matter unencumbered. Otherwise, I felt as though I'd have the voice of dramaturges and literary managers saying, 'This is great, but we'll never be able to produce it.'

As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I'm involved with, for reasons that probably don't need a lot of explanation.

I got an American agent. I don't know what to think about that.

In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.

Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many of your business aspects so you can keep your time free for writing.

I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter.