we started at my partner matt latimer and i did 10 years ago just over that we celebrated at our 10th anniversary. last fall and we've been we love what we do and it's fun to to work with authors. some of them you named i think we've worked with about 150 authors at this point in 10 years and i like to think we have the funnest job in washington dc with just all the conversations. we have all the intelligence we're hearing. it's just it's a it's a fun job to be at the intersection of publishing and media and politics. it's it's a joy. well, mr. urban, what does a literary agent do? well, we are well an unsharable way of putting it would be mercenaries where sort of the middlemen between authors and publishers and we try to get our authors the best possible deal which is usually in the form of an advance from from publishers and and you know, most of them are based in new york the publishers. they're five big ones harper collins simon schuster mcmillan shett and we work to work with our authors to come up with book proposals. basically the ideas for books and then we go out and sell th

we started at my partner matt latimer and i did 10 years ago just over that we celebrated at our 10th anniversary. last fall and we've been we love what we do and it's fun to to work with authors. some of them you named i think we've worked with about 150 authors at this point in 10 years and i like to think we have the funnest job in washington dc with just all the conversations. we have all the intelligence we're hearing. it's just it's a it's a fun job to be at the intersection of publishing and media and politics. it's it's a joy. well, mr. urban, what does a literary agent do? well, we are well an unsharable way of putting it would be mercenaries where sort of the middlemen between authors and publishers and we try to get our authors the best possible deal which is usually in the form of an advance from from publishers and and you know, most of them are based in new york the publishers. they're five big ones harper collins simon schuster mcmillan shett and we work to work with our authors to come up with book proposals. basically the ideas for books and then we go out and sell th