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Originally Posted by smutnut
I have/had an agent but it's for screenwriting. I have a couple produced movies that went straight to video, but the agent played little part in anything getting done.
I don't know if publishing is different than motion picture production, but I doubt it. The agents basically are there when you don't really need them.
I have no dispute with what the previous poster just told you though. Just to add something, he actually gave good thourough advice
P.S. in Hollywood agents get you into studios that are WGA registered if they are. I don't know what they do in the publishing world except maybe give you some clout.
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Yeah I got my agent through a movie studio VP, but they are not a screenwriting agent. I had a couple of scripts optioned and a short film made, but decided I didn't like the movie industry and wanted to write a book. With screenwriting, like you say, they basically get you in the door and you do all the work from there. With books it is a little different. Once you have a finished book they find you a publisher. You may end up working with that publisher to do rewrites, but they do much of the work to get the book sold. Once the book comes out though it is pretty much out of the agents hands and in the hands of you and the publisher to get out there and promote it.
An agent doesn't guarantee success by any means, you have to work your ass off to get anywhere.
BTW congrats on the movies. That is more than 99.9% of people will ever achieve in the writing world.