title: Literary Agents: What They Do, How They Do It, and How to Find and Work with the Right One for You (WILEY BOOKS FOR WRITERS SERIES)
author:  Michael Larsen 
description: Using a snappy straightforward style the author, co-founder of San Francisco's oldest literary agency, answers all of the questions beginning writers have about what agents do and how to work with them. For each topic Larsen provides hands-on information regarding the practical concerns of writers--how to contact an agent, format proposals, understand agency agreements and book contracts, etc. This updated edition includes the latest trends in writing, publishing and agenting that writers need to know in order to get their books published successfully.
zlib_text: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  
  My thanks are, as usual, due to all the people without whom there would have
  been no book. First amongst them is my editor Rosie de Courcy, who has a
  lucid, practically infallible grasp of what should stay and what should go. I
  must thank her for her patience and her perception as well as her good ideas.
  Michael Sissons, my agent, quietly and supremely confidently steered me
  through a rough career patch during the writing of this book. All writers
  should be lucky enough to have him as their agent, but I’m glad they’re not,
  as then he would have no time for me. I also want to thank Peter Matson, Tim
  Corrie, Brian Siberell, the team at ILA, and Alan Greenspan for their
  invaluable help steering my career during the time I wrote this book. I’m
  hoping to get a few more agents so I can have my own cricket team. Seriously,
  though, I would be lost without them. My mother and father were beacons of
  sanity when I was throwing away previous manuscripts, and Alice and Seffi (hi,
  