Agent Wants To Keep The Book?

Janet Reid received a question from an author. The author's agent is quitting the business, but wants to keep the author's book and try to make a sale. Huh?

How can a non-agent make a sale to a publisher? And, if the woman isn't an agent anymore, who is going to track and figure out the royalty statements? How could this work out for anyone?

As usual, Janet has great advice for the author. And, again as usual, the comments section has even more good advice.

Read the whole article here: http://jetreidliterary.blogspot.com/2015/01/query-question-my-agent-is-quitting-but.html 

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AgentFest V

How do you find a reputable agent? Agents are our main topic in tonight's chat. (8-11 pm EST in the chatroom) Well, if you know the right people, you can get leads to good agents.

Thanks to Joe Moore, one of our favorite authors, here is a list of agents taking pitches at AgentFest in NYC, July 8. If you can't be there, you can still use this list to see what each agent is looking for. And the bios have links to their websites.

Go forth and find an agent!

(Agentfest list for those who can't click links: http://www.thrillerwriters.org/thrillerfest/agentfest.html )