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Podcast: Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA)
Episode: A literary agent’s perspective on book publishing, with guest Andy Ross
Description: Andy Ross of the Andy Ross Agency discusses how agents evaluate manuscripts and how agents operate in today’s book publishing climate.
Andy Ross has been active in the publishing world for 40 years, first as a bookseller and now as an agent. In this podcast conversation, he shares his thoughts on agenting and when and how an agent can work with a small independent publisher. Highlights include:
Is there life after bookselling?
What does an agent do?
What are the real advantages of working with an agent, besides contract negotiation?
Why agents need to be more th...