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Literary Agent


Specialty Definitions: Literary Agent

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Occupations

Markets clients' manuscripts to editors, publishers, and other buyers: Reads and appraises manuscripts and suggests revisions. Contacts prospective purchaser of material, basing selection upon knowledge of market and specific content of manuscript. Negotiates contract between publisher and client. Usually works on commission basis. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Literary Agent

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Books

  • The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success (reference)

  • As ever, Scott Fitz--; letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his literary agent Harold Ober, 1919-1940 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Literary Agent

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  literary agent

1,089

  guide to literary agent

30

  literary agent list

24

  literary agent fiction

20

  literary agent directory

6

  literary agent new

2

  literary agent and publisher

2

  email address of literary agent

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Literary Agent

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-i-l-n-r-r-t-t-y"

-3 letters: generality, interlayer, realtering, retreating.

-4 letters: aliterate, alternate, antiglare, argentite, integrate, lettering, reletting, retaliate, retearing, tailgater, ternately, yattering.

-5 letters: aerating, agential, aglitter, aigrette, alerting, algerine, alginate, alienage, alienate, alterant, altering, anteater, argental, arrantly, arraying, arterial, attainer, elaterin, enlarger, entailer, entirely, entirety, entreaty, errantly, erringly, eternity, galenite, gelatine, geranial, glittery, gnarlier, gnattier, gratinee, integral, interage.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Literary Agent


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 69 74 65 72 61 72 79      41 67 65 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01101001 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01000001 01100111 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#105 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#97 &#114 &#121 &#32 &#65 &#103 &#101 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0069 0074 0065 0072 0061 0072 0079      0041 0067 0065 006E 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

467586718467849123573718086

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Bibliographic Items: "literary agent"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "literary agent"

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Public Service or Web Sites Triggered by: Literary Agent