Writers have a talent for writing - agents have a talent for getting you published. The most successful writers understand the need for assistance, freeing them up to do the writing they love and excel at. Dena Fischer, literary agent at The Amy Rennert Agency, represents a key element of your writing support matrix. Agents can help you build a sterling book proposal, target it appropriately, negotiate your contract, and more.

The Amy Rennert Agency is a small Tiburon-based company specializing in representing quality fiction and nonfiction writers.  With 20 years in the business, they feel they have a business process that works - a passionate commitment to writers with personalized service. Jimmy Buffett and David Brenner are two well-known writers they have represented. They recently brokered film rights to David Zemeckis for the book, The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio:  How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less.

Fischer spoke to the author-agent relationship, why you need an agent and how to get one and what's hot in the publishing market right now.

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