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A literary agent is a writer's representative. The job of an agent is to market your book to a publisher and negotiate the most lucrative book contract for you. They keep track of your book rights and generally manage the business end of things so you can concentrate on your writing. And isn't that what you do best? http://www.bookpublishingagent.com/
Many big time publishing houses have stopped the production of unsolicited manuscripts because they receive between 3000- 5000 manuscripts a week. What that simply means you need to find an agent to represent your work. It is a lot of work and people don’t have time to plead and beg with a publishing company to persuade them to publish your book, but an agent does, and will. Publishing companies will not accept your work unless you have an agent. You can no longer submit your work without an agent. That sounds pretty easy enough; just go searching for an agent. You have to submit a query letter to an agent that is out of this world. It has to grab their attention so much that they believe it can grab a publishers attention. Here are some things that needs to be in your query letter.
In the first paragraph, toss out a teaser. Come up with a first sentence that really grabs the agent's attention. Next, write 3 or 4 sentences about what you will write, and if you have a great example of an anecdote that exemplifies your idea, be sure to include it. The third paragraph should contain more information about yourself. Provide another 3 or 4 sentences describing relevant facts that demonstrate the connection between you and your idea. In the final paragraph, mention that you will show your proposal to only one agent at a time. Mention why you have decided to send it to them, perhaps alluding to having seen their credentials in the directory of agents. http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/minis/mini/publishbookmini/publishbookmini3.html
First you need to know what they do for you. They are book-marketing people who can sell anything. They use slick sentences and fancy words to sell your book. They will make sure that your book gets all the attention that it needs to get.

If you didn’t have an agent, the author would have to take a few more steps. You would either have to submit a query letter or proposal. A query letter is a letter Then your work goes in the slush pile, which is a pile of manuscripts that don’t have agents and they can sit there for years before someone even looks at your work.

1. http://www.sideroad.com/InformationProduct/book-publishing.html
2. http://www.writers.net/agents.html