What Do Literary Agents Want?

They want ‘Query’ by Zilla Novikov but they can’t have it

Tucker Lieberman
5 min readApr 16, 2023

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Headstand by Thomas G. from Pixabay

Literary agents try to snap up unpublished manuscripts they believe can be the next bestsellers and match them with paying publishers. When they do this successfully, they get a cut of the dollars. They’re talent scouts and business agents.

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Tucker Lieberman

Editor for Prism & Pen. Author of the novel "Most Famous Short Film of All Time." https://tuckerlieberman.com/