How to Manage Your Agent

Author’s Note

I learned a lot of valuable things writing my first book, Small Screen, Big Picture, but nothing more valuable than this:

If there’s something you want to understand or know more about, the best way to learn it is to write a book about it.

In fact, much of the reason I wanted to write this book was because I have a great relationship with my own agent, but I’m still frequently at a loss for how to communicate with her. Because we’re friends–and because I hate confrontation and conflict with people close to me–it’s sometimes hard to express disappointment or anger. (Not that I have a lot of dissappointment or anger with her. I don’t.) ...