Anonymous Lawyer is looking from some literary representation, or so it would seem. (I must have missed the post.) If you haven’t read Anonymous Lawyer’s blog, I suggest you go take a look. It’s the “fictional” account of the trials and tribulations (no pun intended) of a “fictional” hiring partner at a Biglaw firm.
The beauty of Anonymous Lawyer really comes from not knowing how much is true and how much is exaggerated for effect. Some of the posts are downright nasty, and make you question humanity (and really serve to villify some in the legal profession). Other posts offer a glimmer of hope for this lost anonymous soul. I read it like a trashy novel and generally, I’m not disappointed. I tend not to read the comments on the Anonymous Lawyer’s site though, because like Scheherazade, I find a lot of them just mean spirited and many others just clearly don’t get the humor or irony of the site.
I also agree with Kelly, who comments on Evan’s site that she’s not sure the site would work as a book… I’m not sure it would either. Part of the guilty pleasure of reading the site is getting the diary feel that you are somehow privy to the day-to-day grist mill that AL works in. I think that would be lost in a book.
Anyway, since I’ve published over a half-dozen books or so, I’ve got some contacts. Unfortunately for AL, they are all in technical publishing. However, I do also have a sister who is a professional editor and works for a literary agent. So I’ll do my part by passing along the site to her for some comments and to see if she’ll run it up the food chain.