AGENT ETIQUETTE 101

Jade Wong-Baxter is a literary agent at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency, where she specializes in adult literary/upmarket fiction and narrative nonfiction. You can find her online at goldinlit.com or @jwongbaxter on Twitter.

Wong-Baxter’s work as an agent is grounded in the satisfaction she finds in editorial collaboration. “I thought I wanted to be a writer,” she says. “Then I realized I really did not want to sit alone with my thoughts all day—but I did love editing other people’s work.” She adds that she “loves the autonomy of being able to chase my own obsessions to sign new writers.” At the top of her manuscript wish list right now is “outwardly focused narrative nonfiction—something with plot and drive, combined with a cultural criticism or soft sociological