How A Book Gets Made Series: Agent Taylor Haggerty with Author Iman Hariri-Kia

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🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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We’re so excited to start our summer series about how a book gets made! This week we’re talking all about book agents, from what they do to how authors find an agent in the first place. We brought on Taylor Haggerty, an agent at Root Literary representing commercial fiction for teens and adults, and Iman Hariri-Kia, writer and editor born and based in New York City whose debut novel A Hundred Others Girls will be published July 26th by Sourcebooks.

We chat with Iman about her writing process for A Hundred Other Girls and how she found, queried, and picked out an agent to work with. Taylor explains an agent’s role in the publishing process and shares her tips for choosing the right agent, how to regroup if you get passed on, and she gives us a sense of how much money an author can expect to make for a debut novel.

You can find Iman at @imanharirikia on Instagram and @imanharirikia on Tik Tok

You can find Taylor at @rootliterary on Instagram, rootliterary.com, and PublishersMarketplace.com

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome back to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Becca Freeman and I'm Olivia
0:21.8	Mentor and I am so excited about this new series that we are starting today which is
0:27.8	highly self-motivated. We talked about in our episode three weeks ago how we are both writing
0:33.3	books and we thought it would be really interesting to bring on a bunch of different people
0:38.6	throughout the publishing process and to talk about how a book gets made over the course
0:43.4	of a series of three episodes. I think I'm going to learn so much from this. It's going
0:48.8	to be great. So officially we have a lot of questions we want to ask people but at the
0:53.2	same time I think it'll be really interesting even if you are not an aspiring author and
0:58.0	just somebody who likes to read to understand what your favorite authors go through to get
1:02.3	the book into your hands. And so today we're starting with talking to an agent, then we'll
1:07.9	have an editor and finally a marketer over the next three episodes and each of them will
1:13.5	be paired with an author as well and we'll talk about kind of their piece of the process.
1:19.5	So exciting. So exciting. Before we get into our conversation let's do some highs and
1:24.6	lows. Yes, you can start. Tell me about your high. I have a bunch. I have so much to talk
1:30.2	about today. So first of all I had a no plans to book Binge a Whole series weekend which
1:37.3	felt incredible, truly incredible. And then the second thing was I went to a Jonas Brothers
1:45.2	concert that I got tickets for through Delta. They sent me an email and they were like do you
1:52.9	want to use 10,000 sky miles to get Jonas Brothers tickets at Madison Square Garden and I was
1:57.0	like, yeah, okay. And I kind of thought it was a scam and it wasn't. I brought my friend
2:02.4	Ali who used to work for me and we've become friends and she's my, I guess she's not my
2:08.2	youngest friend but she's my youngest New York friend and she was a Jonas Brothers fan
2:13.3	and her, her teen years and so we went. It was so fun. Do you have a favorite Jonas
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