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Pitching An Agent: 'Dogged' Agent Will Sell Your Book

'I believe in that book,' this agent says of her titles, 'and somehow I'm going to find someone else who does'

By Rachel Kramer Bussel – May 14, 2007
Name:Laura Langlie, literary agent
Number of agents: One
Number of clients: 35
Notable clients: Jessica Benson, Meg Cabot, Mignon F. Ballard, Joan Druett, Jack El-Hai, Sarah Elliott, Melanie Lynne Hauser, Robin Hathaway, Mary Hogan, Lauren Lipton, Leslie Margolis, Jonathan Neale, Delia Ray, Cheryl L. Reed, and Jennifer Sturman.
Amount of unsolicited material accepted: 5 percent
Fiction vs. nonfiction: 75 percent fiction, 25 percent nonfiction

Background: Langlie comes to agenting with a lifelong passion for publishing; as a youngster, she asked for a subscription to Publishers Weekly one Christmas. "There's nothing like a new book, especially one I agented," says Langlie, who ...

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