Agent Appreciation Day: With Gratitude to "Literaticat"

I'm late to the party, but someone has declared today Agent Appreciation Day. Since I think it's always a great idea to celebrate people who do great work, I'm sneaking in a quick post about my literary agent, Jennifer Laughran of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. (She's literaticat here on LJ and on Twitter, where she talks a lot about books and says wise things about the industry.)

For blog readers outside the world of publishing, a literary agent is someone who negotiates much of the busi...