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Several weeks ago I got a phone call from my agent, Suzie Townsend. She was letting me know that she would be leaving Fine Print Lit and moving over to Nancy Coffee Literary & Media Representation. I essentially had three choices: 1) Stay with Fine Print Lit and be assigned to another agent. 2) Go off and start the query process again and find a  new agent. 3) Follow Suzie to her new agency. It’s an interesting crossroads, to be sure. For one thing, I’ve been through this before. My original agent left the agenting business about 8 months after I’d started working with her (for health reasons.) The agency did their best to shuffle her clients around and find us a good match. This is harder than it sounds. For one thing, in many ways agenting is a working partnership, albeit an odd one to get. You usually can’t just… Read more