Showing posts with label Conversations with a literary agent. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 15, 2017

3 Best Things About Being a Literary Agent

by Cyle Young @CyleYoung


I love being a literary agent. The last 1.5 years has been a whirlwind of flurry and excitement. It’s also been jam-packed with thousands of hours of work for me and my team, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

Being an agent is not for everyone. Daily doses of rejection have become the norm and for many people that level of disappointment would do them in. I’ve just decided to accept every rejection as another opportunity to sell my clients manuscripts to a different publisher!