On Agents Who Are Also Authors

Advantages, conflicts of interest, professional boundaries & more

One of the clients I signed over the summer, during the offer call, asked about my whole author/agent “thing.” I don’t remember how they phrased the question—or if it was more of a prompt to just kind of explore what that looked like for me—but it did get me thinking about authors who are/want to be agents, and agents who are/want to be authors. And wha…