Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 5:00
The Author-Agent-Agency Bermuda Triangle ~ Book Agents are your friends
In the link attached in the description, you'll see like a post which summarizes what is currently going on with New Leaf Literary and Media Agency where an agent has been let go and her 45 clients have been left in a limbo. A lot of the initial blame was assigned to the agent but authors are now coming out and sharing the, I suppose, actual truth of this entire situation which somehow keeps repeating again and again wherein the agency gets greedy
Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 2:54
So it's sad that this has happened and as you said, these authors haven't had a real closure and also very sad for the agent because this does put her in a very tricky situation within the industry also, right? Because she has had to drop the ball midway and obviously, for whatever reasons the case may be, at the end of the day, she is the one who worked really hard to gain the trust of these people
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 3:42
They will see the manuscript and in it they will see dollar dollar signs, right? And they want to see that for any project. They will see it for a project that very literally has value. And obviously that relationship is going to be incredibly intimate and incredibly personal. So, from the query process itself, agents ask you to share your story as the author and the story that you are sharing with the world, with the book. Then they'll offer you critiques, suggestions, improvement opportunities