I found this video whilst trawling around. For anyone that is looking for an agent, it is well worth a look. here are some good comments from authors as well.

Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGuQJq5OY7I

thanks for this - very interesting. the advice about choosing agents on the basis of what might go wrong was spot on.

Thanks Stefland - really interesting.

Deb

Brilliant - and Ian Rankin's observations about agents as 'buffers' is so true.
HB x

Brilliant advice from Jenny Colgan about looking at acknowlegements by authors in the same field. Just off to Waterstones!

Sheila

Very interesting - thanks for posting it.

Caro

Interesting - thanks!

Good stuff - thanks!

SG

Really interesting, thanks, Stefland. I liked Mark Billingham's idea of checking out whether the agent you're considering feels like a good person to have on your side when things are going badly. Because there'll always be a moment when they are, even, presumably, if it's just that your sixth film deal falls through... A really good thing to think about.

Emma

Part two...
[quote]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDiNdDMSxsw[/quote]

Jenny Colgan says that the most annoying thing about her editor is that she is always right.
Excellent find, these clips, thank you Stefland.

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ooops, bad link, hope this works...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDiNdDMSxsw

For all of you out there that like these clips, you should sign up to the Book Show on YoutTube.

Lots of interesting stuff on there (plus the sultry tones of Mariella! Oohhh shivers down my spine).

Hope you all enjoy


Steve x

Funny, I had to struggle to try to ignore that aspect - what's sultry got to do with authors finding agents, I thought. Still, at least it wasn't the one who used to leap into helicopters although the voice is similar.

Sheila

Mariella's not a bad arts journalist - either you like the voice or you hate it, I guess, but when she did the arts show on R2 it was excellent. Doesn't she still do a booky one on R4?

Emma

Yes, according to websites she is an arts presenter and has written a book called Dear Mariella: A Guide to Twenty first Century Living

No wonder I was mixing her up with the helicopter one, though, a great favourite with my first husband. I found this under 'Biography' on another website.

'Brief marriage to singer turned TV presenter turned poet Richard Jobson (1979-1983/84). Affairs with showbiz producer Nick Allott, was accused "of pinching Anneka Rice’s husband", and has been rumoured to have dated George Clooney and Chris Evans.'

Sheila

George Clooney and Chris Evans - disparate taste, then!

Yes, I think she still does the book programme on R4, but I can't think what it's called.

Deb