Test Your Literary Agent IQ

If you feel strongly about a particular agent who posts that he or she is not presently taking new clients, you should go ahead and query that agent anyway.

Some agents who charge reading fees are considered legitimate. 

To maximize your response from agents, you should tell everything you possibly can about your book in your query letter.

If you sign a representation agreement with a literary agent, that agent must represent any and all subsequent books you write.

In the USA, to legally advertise their services as a "literary agent," agencies must be a member of the Association of Artist's Representatives (AAR)

One of the most common reasons first novels are passed over by agents is that the story takes too long to get started.

It is perfectly ethical to query more than one agent at a time about the same book.

If you want to see your unpublished novel made into a movie, you should query Hollywood studios and producers directly.

Depending upon your circumstances, it may be appropriate for you to seek a literary agent in a country other than the one in which you presently live.

Most agents devote a great deal of time editing their clients’ books.

It is against the AAR’s Canon of Ethics for any member agency to charge a reading fee.

Except for using their established publishing industry contacts to submit manuscripts to editors, agents provide no other tangible services to authors to justify the commissions they earn.