1. Loretta Barrett, our literary agent, was a successful editor at a major publishing company.

2. I therefore contacted a literary agent, Al Zuckerman, who had been introduced to me as the brother-in-law of a colleague.

3. Her family, besieged by calls, retained New York literary agent Laurie Liss.

4. I gave the novel to the literary agent Curtis Brown to negotiate with a publisher.

5. Nina, the literary agent, was on her way to London on business.

6. She was working as a literary agent.

7. He used to be a literary agent.

8. When literary agent Sarah Yake shopped around Kirsten Kaschock's debut novel 'Sleight' this year, she thought it would be a shoo-in with New York's top publishers.

9. In Mr. Rosenblat's case, Andrea Hurst, the literary agent who secured his book deal, said she trusted him in part because he had already received Ms. Winfrey's imprimatur.

10. It's a sentiment New York literary agent Regina Brooks encountered while working for a publishing company.

11. However his literary agent advised him that the work needed some re-writing and was densely packed with themes and ideas that needed expansion and development.

12. I'd never heard of a literary agent before and I didn't know how to write a query.

13. Quitting after a fracas he had gone to work as a literary agent and had prospered.

14. John Pawsey describes a week in the life of a literary agent.

15. Simple start All seemed relatively simple at the start, recalls literary agent Alexandra Cann.

16. Last week, Herman Rosenblat released a statement through his literary agent admitting that he made up the story of how he and his wife first met.

17. In 1997 Xinran moved to England, where she met and later married Jung Chang's then literary agent.

18. I wrote it just for kicks, and they published it, and I got a call from a literary agent in New York.

19. Their last point is something I discussed with the novelist and literary agent.

20. A few days ago I was in London having drinks with a novelist and a literary agent.

21. I told him that I was going to speak with a literary agent on the following day, and that I hoped I might soon have a book deal.

22. I was in a quandary over what to do with some suggestions my literary agent made, whom I respect and adore, about a new manuscript I had sent her.

23. Additionally, the series has sold about 450 million copies worldwide, Neil Blair, author J. K. Rowling's literary agent, told the Associated Press earlier this year.

24. But first he responded to a call which had come following those magazine profiles — from a literary agent suggesting he write a book.

25. Entrants had to be published authors, put forward by a literary agent or a publisher, and had to submit both a synopsis and a trial chapter.

26. In 2000 they bought back the copyright to his work, and are about to appoint a single literary agent in London to oversee the whole Fleming estate.