What A Literary Agent Can Do For You

A large literary agency has a lot of advantages

. The main one, however, is that they most likely have a rolodex of hundreds of recognized contacts in the publishing world. Therefore, if your book is of any quality, they can easily get your book into one of the publishing house. The disadvantage is that these agencies usually prefer to work with established best selling authors where they, the agency, will get the most commissions for their effort.

On the other hand, the benefit of a smaller literary agency is that they will be a lot more likely to take you on as a client. They will also give you more personal attention. The disadvantage is that they probably do not have nearly as many contacts.

You also want to know how long the literary agency has been operating. If a company has been in business for 25 years you can feel comfortable that they know what they are doing, else they would not have lasted this long.

In addition, the more years that a company has been in the business, the more of the ins and outs that they will have learned about the business - and the more effective they will probably be. This means that they probably have a lot more shortcuts to successfully getting a writer's book published than would a company that is only three years old.

Literary agents want writers who will bring in money for them. You have to realize this when you bring them a property. They work off of commission, so if they don't see dollar signs when reviewing your book, they won't be interested. In other words, if your book, screenplay, or book outline does not have the potential to bring in readers, they are probably not going to be interested in you.

Conversely, however, if they see your manuscript or query letter and think that it shows potential to do well in the marketplace, and they feel that they can sell that potential to the publisher or producer, they will be very interested. So, when you write your query letter, your job is to make sure that the agent sees your book potential in the clearest way possible.

Although there are plenty of excellent and honest literary agents around, there are quite a few scam artists as well. For many people, writing is a labor of love. They write as a hobby. And many times a writer gets to the point where he or she feels that their book is good enough to be published.

Of course this is about the time when most writers will begin to look for an agent or agency. One of the various things that they should be wary of are agents that charge a fee for reading your work, ones that ask for huge upfront fees of any kind, and ones that try to sell you a bunch of services that you don't need.

What A Literary Agent Can Do For You

By: Martha Liu

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