Sign up for the Agent/Editor Roundtables at the @peopleofpublishing.bsky.social conference here: m.signupgenius.com#!/showSignUp...

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The Closing Plenary at the @peopleofpublishing.bsky.social conference will feature an exclusive New York City screening of the award-winning documentary, The Librarians and a discussion with the producers and other industry leaders on book bans and the Freedom to Read @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

Expand horizons with global publishing insights at the @peopleofpublishing.bsky.social’s panel on “The Global Marketplace” moderated by Kelly Farber of KF Literary Scouting.

Learn what makes a creator “book ready” from Podium, Kickstarter, Spotify, and Substack during the @peopleofpublishing.bsky.social conference panel “The Creator Economy” moderated by QCODE Media EVP & Director of Content, Jacob Bronstein.

I’m Regina Brooks, President of the Association of American Literary Agents and CEO of Serendipity Literary Agency. I am so excited to invite you to the very first People of Publishing Conference (peopleofpublishing.bsky.social), happening Sept 17th at the New York Academy of Medicine in NYC.

Check out the preliminary program for the @peopleofpublishing.bsky.social conference to be held on September 17th at the New York Academy of Medicine. Register now, if you haven’t already! 1/

Learn more about AALA and how we support literary agents to better serve authors with integrity and excellence.

www.aalitagents.org

The Association of American Literary Agents (AALA) is the preeminent organization of and for professional literary agents in the United States.

AALA members! Join us this Wednesday for a:

✨ New & Innovative Publishers Roundtable ✨

The Programming Committee of the AALA is pleased to announce a roundtable discussion featuring several more recently-established independent publishers with innovative business models.

AALA members! Join us on June 24th for:

✨ The Royalties Committee Presents: Royalties Software Demo for Agents ✨

Join Bradbury Phillips, Atlas Rights & E3 The Rights Manager as they showcase their agency accounting software.

This is a members-only event. Register: aalitagents.org/event/the-ro...

There are more than 140 items up for auction, AMAs, critiques, book bundles, subscriptions, seminars and more! Critiques are the most popular items to bid on, and there are more than 50 AMAs ranging from open ended to specific topics like foreign rights or marketing.

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The money tho auction raises will go directly to supporting LAOC program participants—literary agents and publishing hopefuls from underrepresented communities, full of talent and invaluable lived experience. Get to bidding!!

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The @litagentsofchange.bsky.social Literary Auction for Change is now live!! The Auction closes on Monday June 23rd and has all kinds of items up for bidding.

Check it out on the auction site: www.32auctions.com/LAFC

Starting today, the AALA’s DEI Committee and the non-profit organization Literary Agents of Change (@litagentsofchange.bsky.social) will be presenting four panels in which literary agent interns get a sneak peek into various professions within the industry.

We're thrilled to share that registration is now open for AALA Members for the @peopleofpublishing.bsky.social. A limited number of early bird tickets are available.

Wednesday, September 17, 2025
New York Academy of Medicine
New York, NY

* Early Bird AALA Member ($129.00)
* AALA Member ($179.00)

🚨Important🚨: Scammers continue to impersonate literary agents and agencies, and are now doing so using fake @aalitagents.com emails. AALA members DO NOT have personal email addresses associated with the AALA . Stay informed: aalitagents.org/literary-age... Authors, please share this information!

AALA would like to congratulate our president, Regina Brooks of
@serendipitylit.bsky.social, on being named a 2024 Publishers Weekly Notable Person of the Year! We are so proud to see Regina’s hard work, dedication, and leadership recognized!

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This Giving Tuesday help us at LAOC diversify the agenting profession and publishing as a whole. Your donation is an investment in a more diverse and equitable pub industry for agents and authors alike, and we're halfway to our goal already!

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Our most recent AI licensing alert to members is linked within this PW story. We ask agents to consider carefully: if you and your clients are willing to hand rights over to a publisher for them to administer, what is appropriate compensation to the publisher for their admin of those rights?

Our Canon of Ethics can be found here: aalitagents.org/canon-of-eth... Membership information can be found here: aalitagents.org/membership/