What Do Literary Agents Do? [1]
Although it seems like an obvious enough question, it's one that many writers don't know the complete answer to. Literary agent Nathan Bransford has an excellent blog post from the agent's perspective [2], and Jofie Ferrari-Adler offers his take, from the editor's perspective, in his article "Necessary Agent [3]," from the July/August 2010 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. [4]