Regina Brooks Leads the AALA

KATIE ARNOLD-RATLIFF

The business of literary representation is evolving quickly (hello, AI!), and amid all the changes and challenges—how to handle changing contracts, the ethics of commissions, managing rights and royalties—agents need guidance and community. Enter the Association of American Literary Agents (AALA), a nonprofit membership organization formed in 1991 through the merger of the Independent Literary Agents Association and the Society of Authors’ Representatives, which had been founded in 1928. This past summer the organization elected a new president, Regina Brooks, a longtime agent herself, who founded Serendipity Literary Agency in 2000. Brooks recently spoke about the state of agenting today, what writers misunderstand about the role of the agent, and the numerous irons she has in the literary fire. How did you become involved in the AALA, and what does…

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Poets & Writers (Digital) - 1 Issue, November/December 2024

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