Hold on a second, it's my agent calling

I've been working my ass off for the past several months on a book proposal. I finished it last weekend after saying I was going to finish it the next weekend for about 5 weekends. I mailed it out to a local agent I know and within 15 hours I had an agent. I have an agent! No wait, a literary agent- that makes it sounds like I write literature.

The agent's job is to get me a good deal on the book with a publisher. For the last book, I didn't use an agent because I knew my advance (and royalties, it now seems) would be so small that I couldn't really give away 15 percent of it nothing. Let's hope this is different...

But anyway, I've been trying to see how many ways I can work "my agent" into conversation. So far, nothing has really worked all that effortlessly. That's important, because it needs to sound natural, like I've always had an agent. Like I'm saying "my mother" or "my therapist."

I was at Day Job today, and I was standing by the fax machine and I said, "I had to fax something to my agent this morning." Then later I said, "I also had to paperclip documents from my agent today!" I don't think I was as subtle as I wanted to come across.


Whatever, I'm sure my agent wouldn't care what those people think.