How to Be Your
Own Literary Agent

The Business of Getting
a Book Published

By Richard Curtis
Houghton Mifflin, $13.95

ISBN 0395718198


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Review by George Cowmeadow Bauman

Now that you've been encouraged, inspired, and have packed a powerful prose into an insightful and readable text, what next? There are two books that focus on writers taking charge of their own literary destinies that belong on your reference bookshelf.

Richard Curtis, head of a leading literary agency in New York, provides an insider's view in How to Be Your Own Literary Agent: The Business of Getting a Book Published by Richard Curtis. He understands the lack of experience most writers have with contracts and negotiating skills associated with them. In his comprehensive book, Curtis sets out the business details that all writers must become familiar with if they expect to be properly paid for being published. Once a language artist endorses the first check from a publisher, s/he has become a businessperson, agreeably or not. Read this essential handbook which offers an overview of the book market, including the effect on publishing by the rise of the bookstore superstores and the fate of the independent stores.

George Cowmeadow Bauman has been joyfully ruined by reading. He may be reached at booknman@aol.com.

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