Literary agent Barbara Jones will speak to students at the Drexel Writing Festival on Wednesday, May 8 at 3:30 p.m. She has had an impressive career in the publishing industry as an editor, and she is ...

During his 50-year career, he represented dozens of best-selling authors, including Ken Follett, Stephen Hawking and Michael ...

If you are associated with the business of publishing in any capacity, you will know that literary agencies and agents are critical to the life cycle of a book. In fact, the industry as a whole and ...

For many creatives, the last step of their work — getting it published — remains elusive and confusing. This is where literary agents, like Kate McKean, come in. Lycoming College recently hosted ...

Those are the odds of an unpublished author convincing a literary agent to represent your novel, according to Mark Malatesta at Literary-Agents.com. “The best book agents can get as many as 1,500 ...

The writing that is a major part of a scientist's professional life does not usually languish unread. Rarely, for example, is a go-between needed to direct a paper or grant proposal to the appropriate ...

Industry feedback is an incredible benefit to aspiring writers. That's why at Wilkes, each creative thesis is read and evaluated by an agent, editor, publisher or producer in the field. Our outside ...

Our last column analyzed provisions customarily included in agreements between performing artists and managers. Several of the same concepts also apply to agreements between authors and literary ...

Barbara Jones is an agent with the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, where she represents writers of upmarket fiction and nonfiction, with an emphasis on voices from previously underrepresented ...