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Choose the correct words. Literary agents Everybody reads best-sellers. *If that seems a lot of money, remember that it is very difficult to get published without the help of a literary agent. Many publishing companies only read a manuscript if an agent (9) had sent / has sent it to them. Many agents (10) have received / receive more than fifty manuscripts a week so they need to be able to realize that a manuscript is a potential best-seller. Even J.K. Rowling (11) needed / was needing a literary agent. She (12) spent / was spending five years writing her first novel (13) before / until she sent it to Christopher Little Literary Agents in London in 1995. He liked it and agreed to represent her. It (14) takes / took a year to find her a publisher and the rest is history. Christopher Little (15) has worked / is working very closely with Rowling since 1995 and he (16) has helped / was helping her to become incredibly successful. Literary agents are not a modern phenomenon. They (17) have been / were around for over 100 years. Agatha Christie's agent was Edmund Cork. Harold Ober represented H.G. Wells in the early 1900s. Even Charles Dickens had an agent, George Hogarth, his father-in-law. So, when you (18)'ve written / writes your first book, what do you do? Find a literary agent!​

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If that seems like a lot of money, remember that it is very difficult to get published without the help of a literary agent. Many publishing companies only read a manuscript if an agent has sent it to them. Many agents receive more than fifty manuscripts a week, so they need to be able to realize that a manuscript is a potential best-seller. Even J.K. Rowling needed a literary agent. She spent five years writing her first novel before she sent it to Christopher Little Literary Agents in London in 1995. He liked it and agreed to represent her. It took a year to find her a publisher, and the rest is history. Christopher Little has worked very closely with Rowling since 1995, and he has helped her to become incredibly successful. Literary agents are not a modern phenomenon. They have been around for over 100 years. Agatha Christie's agent was Edmund Cork. Harold Ober represented H.G. Wells in the early 1900s. Even Charles Dickens had an agent, George Hogarth, his father-in-law. So, when you've written your first book, what do you do? Find a literary agent!