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Necessary Agent

by Jofie Ferrari-Adler

Special Section

July/August 2010

An editor reveals how the best agents—Molly Friedrich, Jud Laghi, Chris Parris-Lamb, Scott Moyers, and Jennifer Joel among them—work behind the scenes to help their clients’ books get the attention they deserve.

Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Agent Georges Borchardt

by Jofie Ferrari-Adler

Feature

September/October 2009

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Georges Borchardt has been an agent for more than fifty years. He’s seen authors, editors, and other agents come and go, but two things have never changed: his belief that good writing is a gift and his ability to get it published.

Agents and Editors: A Q&A With Four Literary Agents

by Jofie Ferrari-Adler

Feature

May/June 2009

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Four agents discuss how the economy is affecting their jobs, where they’re finding new writers, and what totally freaks them out about MFA students.

Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Four Young Literary Agents

by Jofie Ferrari-Adler

Feature

January/February 2009

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Four young literary agents meet for an evening of food, wine, and conversation about the writing they’re looking for, how they’re finding it, what they love, what they hate, and ten things writers should never ever do.

Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Agent Nat Sobel

by Jofie Ferrari-Adler

Feature

May/June 2008

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Agent Nat Sobel, one of the most forward-thinking and outspoken agents in the business, voices his opinions on what authors should do for themselves, the dangers of MFA programs, and what he finds in literary magazines.

Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Agent Lynn Nesbit

by Jofie Ferrari-Adler

Special Section

January/February 2008

With more than forty years of experience in the business, agent Lynn Nesbit discusses how she signed some of her biggest clients, how a writer can get an agent’s attention, and what’s wrong with the publishing industry.

Q&A: Scott Hoffman's Reasons to Rep

by Kevin Larimer

News and Trends

May/June 2006

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At the end of Folio Literary Management's second month in operation, Scott Hoffman, who represents writers of fiction and nonfiction and receives between two hundred and five hundred queries a week, spoke about the role of agents in today's publishing marketplace.

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