Do you correspond strictly with regards to your project and nothing else? Chat a little? Date and have sex? I'm just curious how the writer-agent professional relationship tends to go, how well they get to know each other.
I chat minimally with mine. She's very nice, warm, pleasant, etc., but... I'm not paying her 15% to be my friend! (or for sex...) Polite greetings, basic comments about weather/vacations/the election, then get to work.
We're getting married in January. Bigamously. ...or, we talk 90% writing-related and 10% other. We share some interests and have similar senses of humour.
If I ever get an agent, I would want the occasional fancy dinner in NYC. If I get a book deal and my agent was part of it. why not celebrate a little with him or her? I have no idea how this really works. I never got a book deal, but I have spoken with agents on the phone. It was pretty much all business. Is there an agent out there known for being a little wild? Now, that would be who I want to work with.
