How to get a literary agent

I thought I’d written a post on this before but somebody asked me about it the other day and I realised I hadn’t! I’ve written about how an agent can help you and how I got my own agent but I thought it’d be helpful for me to write a more general post about the best way to try to secure an agent of your own. Please note the following advice is mainly applicable if you’re writing fiction – the guidelines around non-fiction are slightly different, mainly in that you usually need a proposal and...