Greetings dear listeners this is another exciting edition of the Remnant Podcast

we're going to do something a little different today I swear this is not simply an excuse for me to

name drop my book and guilt you people into buying it but I it's not solely that so I have done

something weird here I have brought in so let me put it this way I get asked all the time about

the book business what it's like to write a book how do you get a book do you need an agent is the

publishing industry doomed all of these sorts of things and I in a weird way I've had it most of

my life because I grew up with my mom being a literary agent and I worked for her for a little while

and but the industry has changed so much that I usually don't have good answers so I usually

either make stuff up or give them best guesses or if it's something that I'm also curious about too

I ask this guy Jay Mandel who is my agent and the agent of other people in the conservative

pantheon but not just the conservative pantheon yeah all many parts of the pantheon yes you all

pantheons yeah it's a pantheon yeah and so Jay Mandel you you're you have a specific title at William

Morris and never sort of but you can call me a partner okay that's helpful it's your partner and

you've been a literary agent for how long so long I've been in the business since

1994 I essentially came straight out of school I worked in a little teeny office not sure how big your

mom's business was but it was smaller than you were it was five people so it was it was pretty

typical of the book publishing industry lots of boutique literary agencies doing representation

it was called the Virginia Barber Agency and I worked for and still work with a woman named

Jennifer Rudolph Walsh who was partners at the time with with the namesake Virginia Barber and

we spent I spent seven more years in that office before our company was bought by then William

Morris now WME right and WME stands for William Morris and Devar that's right yeah and not not

to cast aspersions on the vital and important work that you do but the biggest slice of the pie

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