Today is #Agentsday Day (not to be confused with the popular Unofficial Agent Appreciation Day), a first time event where agents reveal the intricacies of their lives in 140-character bursts.
Michelle Wolfson from Wolfson Literary founded the Twitter event with this post yesterday: “Feel like we need a #agentsday day in the life of an agent hashtag to dispel the myths of sitting around reading & eating bon bons.” After that, agents around the Twittersphere began posting at the #agentday hashtag. With a simple Twitter search, you can watch Janet Reid crack the whip on authors or look at Colleen Lindsay‘s paperwork or eavesdrop on Jason Ashlock‘s calls to LA or peek into Kate McKean‘s crowded schedule.
The LA Times ran an article, complete with a directory of all the participating writers. Here’s an excerpt: “Yet many large agencies haven’t fostered this kind of transparency — you don’t see the agents at Wylie, for example, tweeting today. Maybe that’s because those agencies are too old-school to “get” the Internet, maybe it’s because they resemble the fictional Hollywood agency in “Entourage,” with overworked assistants ducking flying egos, or maybe it’s because the key work of an agent is in making deals. And keeping a deal-in-progress behind a curtain of secrecy is the best way to make it happen.”