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Post by potet on Jan 3, 2022 22:29:35 GMT
Literary agents did nor exist in France until 2016 when a handful opened agencies in Paris - some foreign, some French, but trained in an English-speaking country. If an agency requests money, do not sign any contract with them because a genuine agent will never do that. His/her fees amounts to 10-15% of the author's royalties before taxes. The author of a sitcom - like me - will need an agent who is both un agent littéraire and un agent artistique because the exploitation by a TV company will be handled by the artistic department. I have read plenty of articles about French literary agents. Authors are advised not to contact them and/or send them any text. They just hate that. You have first to become known enough; then they will contact you. If you have landed a one-year contract, and the book you trusted the agent with is not published during that period, do not renew the contract because the agent may be a dishonest one who keeps your book unpublished to prevent it from competing with another one whose promotion he is also in charge with.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jan 19, 2022 15:30:49 GMT
I do believe that originally there was little need for them, anywhere. Printers handled everything to do with the printed word, often Self-Published. Then some printers also became publishers. Then, such was the workload of publishing, establishments spilt off just as publishers, farming the work out to printers. Then, some people split off to just be go-betweens between a writer and publisher. France was late coming to the latter though Anyone reading this who is new to it all, do take in to account that many agents are just as 'fussy' as publishing houses, and they also specialise, and they often take 20%. This is handy >>>> www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writers--artists-yearbook-2022-9781472982834/
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