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Q&A How does a new writer keep from getting scooped?

I'm looking for a literary agent. I've never published before. 1) What's to keep an agent from taking my manuscript and publishing it themselves, or handing it off to one of their writer friends?...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by horse hair‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T06:30:34Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/28235
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar horse hair‭ · 2019-12-08T06:30:34Z (almost 5 years ago)
I'm looking for a literary agent. I've never published before.

1) What's to keep an agent from taking my manuscript and publishing it themselves, or handing it off to one of their writer friends?

2) What's to keep an agent from taking my original ideas, giving them to a writer friend, and having them create their own work based off of some of those ideas?

How do new writers protect themselves from things like this?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2017-05-23T11:31:06Z (over 7 years ago)
Original score: 25