Crossword clues for literary agent
literary agent
Wiktionary
n. A person who represents writers and their written works to publishers and film producers and assists in the sale and deal negotiation of the same.
WordNet
n. an agent who represents an author is dealings with publishers
Wikipedia
A literary agent (often synonymous with " publishing agent") is an agent who represents writers and their written works to publishers, theatrical producers, film producers and film studios, and assists in the sale and deal negotiation of the same. Literary agents most often represent novelists, screenwriters and non-fiction writers. They are paid a fixed percentage (usually twenty percent on foreign sales and ten to fifteen percent for domestic sales) of the proceeds of sales they negotiate on behalf of their clients.
Usage examples of "literary agent".
Beginning writers need to remember that anyone with a few hundred dollars to invest can place an ad in Writer's Digest, calling himself or herself a literary agent - it isn't as if you have to pass a bar exam, or anything.
My wife is a very successful literary agent, so what I am about to tell you comes from my own experience as a writer and former editor, and from close observation of her work as an agent.
Neither Price nor Buchanan claimed to know anything definite about the book offer, but in New York Spiro Agnew's literary agent was telling everybody who asked that the Nixon deal could be closed momentarily for at least $2 million and maybe more.
After I had been settled in Rimini for a couple of months, I wrote to MI6 to inform them that a Swiss literary agent was negotiating on my behalf with a publisher who was interested in publishing my story, and asked them how I could submit my manuscript for clearance.
Which is a pity, because a close friend of mine happens to be a very influential Literary Agent.