How Literary Agents Find Talent on Twitter

An otter was following me on Twitter, recalls agent Brooks Sherman with FinePrint Literary Management. The otter was a character whose Twitter account was managed by a British illustrator. Shermans interest spiked when the character, appropriately named Otter, unfollowed him. He decided to view the illustrators profile, and was impressed by his several thousand Twitter followers, some of whom were notable illustrators, and even more impressed after viewing the man's online portfolio.

Sherman found the authors e-mail address and contacted him. The other day an otter started following me on Twitter and I did nothing of it than remark on the oddity, he wrote. Sad…
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