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Literary Agents and Agencies

When New Isn’t Better: The Value of Experience

Author-Agent “Handshake” Agreements: Be Wary

The AALA (Formerly the AAR) Revises Its Canon Of Ethics

Agencies in Turmoil: Red Sofa Literary Threatens Legal Action, Mass Firings At Corvisiero Literary Agency

Beware: Pigeon House Literary / Druella Burhan

Publishizer: Do Authors Really Need a Crowdfunding Literary Agency?

Author-Agent Handshake Agreements: Should You Be Wary?

Red Flag Alert: Loiacono Literary Agency, Swetky Literary Agency, Warner Literary Group

Manuscript Pitch Websites: Do Literary Agents Use Them?

How Not to Seek a Literary Agent: The Perils of “Middleman” Services

Self-Publishing and Author-Agent Agreements: The Need for Change

Agenty Advice to a Hopeful Writer, From a Non-Agent

Questions to Ask Your Prospective Literary Agent

Opening a Vein: Agent Artery

Weird Business Model: Quill Shift Literary Agency

Guest Post: Dear Agent — Write the Letter That Sells Your Book

Why You Can’t Always Trust the Source

The Brit Writers Awards: Questions and Threats

Agencies Becoming Publishers–a Trend and a Problem

Literary Agencies as Publishers: An Accelerating Trend

The Interminable Agency Clause

Best Solution Author Agency (or, Beware of Agent Solicitations)

Reality Check on Aisle Writer Beware

Authors Guild Statement on the Wylie Agency’s New Epublishing Venture

The Case Against Reading Fees

Are Agents Underpaid?

Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas

A Quote is Nice, But Context is Better

Agent Inbox

Why Referral Fees Present Ethical Problems

Bad Impressions for Good Impressions Audio Books

Nathan Bransford’s “Agent for a Day” Contest

Agentfail

The Ultimate Queryfail

When Your Agent Only Has Excuses

Shades of Edit Ink: AuthorHouse and Objective Entertainment

I Had a Dream…

Literary Agent Directories

A Couple of Things: Airleaf, Local Agents

Research First, Query Next

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