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This article is from the misc.writing Recommended Reading List FAQ, by Terry L Jeffress jeffress@xmission.com with numerous contributions by others.

3.1 Literary Agents and Agencies (misc.writing Recommended Reading List)

Curtis, Richard. "How to be Your Own Literary Agent: The Business
of Getting a Book Published." Revised and expanded ed. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1996. ISBN 0-395-71819-8, trade paperback,
257 pp., $13.95.

This book is necessarily dated -- I think my version is from
1986, or maybe even 1984 -- but still germane in almost every
regard. And it isn't dated much; I found virtually all of the
language he discusses in his point-by-point contract review in
my own 1991 contract, despite the years that have passed. (And
was pleased to discover that the one section I'd made my
publisher delete was one Curtis considered extremely
disadvantageous.) This book is an absolute must for anyone
dealing with book publishers, book contracts, and agents.

 

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