"The "joys" of power in my business as a literary agent are subtle. There are very few overnight sensations in my angle of the publishing world. Only after you're right about a particular book for the fourth time—a book you've passionately believed in—do you begin to reap some of these elusive joys. Suddenly editors really begin to listen to you: when you "pitch" a debut novel, when you disagree with a marketing campaign, when you're violently allergic to a proposed title or book jacket. I suppose the next step is the hardest of all: once you've experienced the joy of power, it's time to leverage that power to truly effect change, to bend the publishing community to your own will about what to publish as a responsible citizen of the world. Now that's exacting a power beyond joyful and it's a work in constant progress!"
Molly Friedrich, Founder, Friedrich Agency