It's an exciting time at the Agency. I spent 10 days in New York visiting publishers and talking about their lists. It's always stimulating to see editors being so passionate about their books. I was tag-teaming with Claire Wilson, an agent at the distinguished British agency Rogers, Coleridge and White. It was her first sales trip to NYC, so I set up joint meetings together. We were a good team - she and I were each from different time zones, so we could pick up the slack when the other one faded!

On returning, I have been lucky enough to find two new clients - one based in Hood River - the talented self-published novelist Nancy Richardson Fischer, and one on Larch Mountain - the gifted artist Bruce Zick.