Shooting the Shit About What Agents Do All Day
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What do literary agents do all day?
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Welcome to another episode of Shooting the Shit with literary agents Carly Waters and Cece Lira, where we dissect publishing gossip, discuss book industry trends, and the overall state of the book business. If you've ever wanted to grab a coffee with two literary agents, grab your mug and pull up a chair.
Hi everybody, welcome to another episode with Carly and Cece. If you were watching us on YouTube, you can see that Cece is not in her home office today. Cece, tell us where you are.
I'm not in my home office. I am, well, maybe you guys can see the background if you're on YouTube. I'm in New York, there's Central Park behind me. I mean, kind of a tiny glimpse of Central Park behind me, but it counts. And Carly and I are shooting this on a Monday, which is not our typical day. Usually we record on Wednesdays. And so our week has barely begun because it's 10 a.m. And so it'll be fun to chat next week to be like, how was the week? How about you, Carly? Where are you headed? I know you're traveling, right?
I'm traveling this week. So today I'm home. It's Monday. Tomorrow I'm going to Toronto, have Mai's Clio Dang launch tomorrow night. But I'm just kind of just staying one night and then I'll be back at my desk for Thursday, Friday. So, you know, one of those weeks kind of on the go, which is which is fun. But I kind of I'm going to throw this out there. I mean. I haven't prepared Cece for this. I actually kind of like recording on a Monday. I don't know. There's something like a nice way to start the week. Just like talk, even though nothing's happened yet. I don't know. Like there's pros and cons, right? Because when we record midweek news is broken, you know, newsletters have been released. Like there is stuff to talk about.
So would we just be reflecting on the last week? I don't know. In our kind of Google doc today of what we're going to talk about is a bit more reflective. So I don't know. I feel like the tone of the day of which we record actually affects the way we talk about it.
How do agents handle the constant code-switching in their jobs?
Does that make sense?
Yeah.
It does. It does. Because we're human beings. We're not robots. And so mood affects everything. I love that. I actually really like recording on Mondays too. I think that the disadvantage is if we record on a Wednesday and the episode comes out on the following Monday, things are a bit more topical.
Yeah.
But like in terms of mood and like a great way to start the week, I quite like it.
All right. Well, we might have to play around with it. But often we do really try to stick to Wednesdays. But we obviously, you know, we travel and the reason that we're recording today is because of me because I'm going to be in transit.
So wait, let me ask. Are you going to be – are you going to take the train or a plane?
to try i'm gonna fly fly okay yeah i found last time i took the train i used to take the train all the time which you know i'm very pro public transit of all kinds last time i took the train i was in business class and on the way back somebody zoomed the entire time like in a business class like it's not like business class is silent zone you know like it's like a silent car it's kind of a silent it's kind of assumed that business class is a silent car or you do like a quick call That would drive me insane. And the internet on the train last time I took via rail wasn't fantastic. Like it cuts out usually at a couple spots where you're kind of out in the middle of nowhere between Toronto and Ottawa.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What do literary agents do all day?
0:00–2:34
2
How do agents handle the constant code-switching in their jobs?
2:34–5:02
3
What are the challenges of being a literary agent?
5:02–6:37
4
How do agents prioritize their workload effectively?
6:37–10:32
5
What does a typical day in the life of a literary agent look like?
10:32–14:02
6
How do agents feel about queries from previously represented authors?
14:02–17:11
7
What factors influence an agent's decision to take on a new client?
17:11–19:19
8
What insights can we gain from the latest book sales trends?
19:19–42:58