10 Things You Never Knew About Literary AgentsA “Special Report” by Rusty Fischer

Recently I was talking to a literary agent and her dog kept barking the whole time we were on the phone together. Over the holidays last year several agents sent me Christmas cards with sweet, touching or funny personal notes inside. A few months ago an agent forwarded me an email response to one of my client’s query letters and forgot to turn off the entire thread; his earlier responses to the person he was writing to was littered with typos! Another agent wrote me one of the most encouraging rejection letters I’ve ever read. .Years back a young agent took...