How do literary agents who blog, tweet and carouse online find the time to do the real work of agenting: reading, hobnobbing with editors, reading some more and making great book deals for their ...

Tackling the profound yet elusive changes in the marketplace that affect the relationship between authors and agents, a panel of veteran literary agents discussed the ways in which they now approach ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about books, publishing, authors and readers Literary agent Eric Smith of P.S. Literary represents young adult novels, ...

In an age of overwhelming digital saturation, personal insight is essential to commanding the attention and interest of book agents and publishers. A lack of tact is an oversight — or slight — that ...

Lawyers and agents both play important roles for clients interested in publishing, marketing, selling, or licensing their works. This panel will discuss the role agents and lawyers play in negotiating ...

Haywood, a former president of the Professional Association of Canadian Literary Agents, joined Transatlantic in 2004, after working in international rights at Random House. The agency represents ...

New York's top book agents on Schwarzenegger's flop, the Lena Dunham-Gawker spat and why Hollywood loves "The Fault in Our Stars." By Matthew Belloni, Andy Lewis This story first appeared in the April ...

Publishing Power Agents on Obama’s Literary Potential, Why Vince Gilligan Should Write a Novel Sloan Harris and Esther Newberg, partners/co-heads of ICM's publishing department, which helped bring ...

Disclaimer: A couple of years ago, I made a bucket list. As I've had a pretty rollicking life, my bucket contained a single experience: Sell a novel to a major house. And now, Saint Martin's Press is ...