Experienced book industry people who represent authors and illustrators for a percentage of their clients' profit. Agents typically claim 10%-20% of advances and royalties, but are generally savvy to contract negotiations and have market knowledge and contacts that most authors do not. Some agents charge reading fees to review a prospective client's manuscript. Those fees can be very high, and do not guarantee placement of the manuscript with a publisher.
One who acts on behalf of the author to find a publisher for a written or proposed manuscript and who handles the subsequent subsidiary rights not acquired by the publisher; sometimes called an author's agent or author's representative. Also one who acts on behalf of publishers to find special types of material or authors to develop that material.
an agent who represents an author is dealings with publishers
a new writer's most viable avenue of approach to the large publishing houses, and agents are well aware of this
A literary agent represents an author in their dealings with publishers. It is their job to get a manuscript read and sought after by the right people.
Person who functions as intermediary for an author in transactions with the publisher.
a person or company looking after the interests of author clients and managing the exploitation of rights in an author's work. This includes submission of a book to publishers, perhaps in the form of an auction, negotiating a contract, collecting money due, and dealing with other rights not held by the publisher, such as (in many cases) broadcasting and film rights.
A literary agent represents writers and their written works to publishers and film producers and assists in the sale and deal negotiation of the same. Literary agents most often represent novelists, screenwriters and major non-fiction writers. They usually earn their living by taking a part of a writer's earnings, traditionally ten to twenty percent.
