AvantGuild: What Can Brown Do for Writers?

In this week’s installment of mediabistro.com’s “Pitching an Agent” series, Roberta Brown reveals how she created the Brown Literary Agency in the mid-1990s because her friends were having trouble landing literary representation and she was convinced their books could sell. She proved herself right, and now she’s got 42 clients who’ve all gotten successful book deals, many of them working various fields of the romance market. Before you start sending Brown your manuscript, though, be advised that she takes on maybe one out of a thousand submissions.

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