If one sales agent lands a customer who had previously bought from-or even spent a few hours with-another agent, the original rep gets a cut.

FORBES: Twenty-Ton Cult

Dig up your original contract, and if you have an agent, go over it together.

FORBES: Is there gold in your backlist? Self-publish and find out!

The recent revelation that in 2003 Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was the original leaker of the name of a CIA agent has led to an astonishing climax in a case that clearly should never have seen the light of day.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

The BBC revealed that the original investigation was declared closed without investigators speaking to a Special Branch agent handler who used the name Lenny.

BBC: Denis Donaldson: Life and death of secret agent

The estate agent had gussied up the history of the place in the brochure a traditional coaching inn, original beams, visited by Thackeray, heritage bleeding out the wazoo, etc.

NEWYORKER: Fjord of Killary