Perks of Being a Literary Agent

2) You get to make the editor hate you. Your job is not over once you sell the manuscript to a publisher. If you want to be good at what you do, you stick with your author till the end. You have to present questions to the editor who in turn will have to ask the bigwigs in the publishing firm these questions (yes, your editor is supposed to do more than just correct error mistakes). The more your author's book is on the bigwigs-in-marketing's minds, the more advertisement the book gets. It's basically a factory line of questions. [If they know what they're doing] The author asks questions of the agent, who in turn asks the editor, who in turn gets to ask the marketing team. The part where fiction comes in is, you have to remember the editor works for the publishing company, they do not want to make anyone angry because editors have virtually no power. All they can do is ask questions/ make suggestions to the marketing team in hopes that they will make a book that the author will be proud of. Which brings us to point two...