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Hi, E.W.,

That would depend on the agent. Most of them require you to sign up for a certain length of time with them. I don’t have the problem because I write 2 books a year, one for each of my current publishers. But there are people who write 2 books in a whole career, (e.g. how about Harper Lee?)and their agents must agree to that. They can’t get blood out of a stone, after all. We write what we write. The point is that every writer negotiates his/her deal with his/her agent, and these probably vary.

Can you fire your agent? If there’s a contract, you don’t renew it. Or you fire for cause, like neglecting your book or something like that.

And successful working literary agents have multiple clients.

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