Live Q&A: the life of a literary agent

This Friday between 1 and 2pm, Karolina Sutton from Curtis Brown will be here to cast light on what goes into literary agenting. Please start posting your queries now Since the relaunch of guardian.co.uk/books, we’ve been asking you to tell us what you’d like to see on the site. One interesting request came from Degrus , UnpublishedWriter , and RolandKempston who suggested that we corral members of the publishing industry and get them to come online and explain what, precisely, they do. To that end, we’ve set up a series of five webchats with books professionals, which should hopefully cast light on the production process all the way from manuscript to bookshop. We begin this Friday with the agent – a mysterious figure whose most obvious role is to get the best price possible for books, but who can also act as friend, first reader, counsellor and shoulder to cry on. Online to explain her role will be Karolina Sutton , from one of the UK’s premier literary agencies, Curtis Brown . She represents a range of fiction and non-fiction authors, from award-winning debut novelists to bestselling crime fiction writers. Her clients include Andrea Ashworth, Patricia Cornwell, Alan Garner, Siri Hustvedt, Haruki Murakami and Tobias Wolf. She’ll be here to answer your questions from 1pm to 2pm this Friday, 13 May . Feel free to start posting questions now, so she’ll have plenty to get to grips with, and come back on Friday to read her replies. Next week we talk to an editor: Francis Bickmore, of Granta. Publishing guardian.co.uk

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