71.   Immediately, the literary agents and publicists began trading rumors and fears.

72.   In that same period of time, she also was unsuccessful in trying to convince a prominent Boston literary agent to sell her story to a book publisher.

73.   Industry-savvy readers will recognize the unnamed aggressive literary agent as Andrew Wylie.

74.   Instead, the literary agent is a wealthy, conservative woman, born in Alexandria, Va., near Washington.

75.   It used to be that a literary agent first sold a book to a publisher and then tried to sell it to the movies.

76.   Jim Fitzgerald, a New York literary agent, thought he was doing an obvious thing when he proposed a quickie biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. last week.

77.   Last spring, Lerner sent proposals to a list of literary agents including Brian DeFiore, who agreed to sell it.

78.   Literary agent Lucianne Goldberg opined to the N.Y. Post that investigating the story would be fraught with problems.

79.   Literary agents are also beginning to offer the services of in-house editors or are urging clients to hire their own editors.

80.   Marvin Josephson, her literary agent, said the new book would not be a rewrite of the older one.