Should I go for a well established agent or a smaller one?

Should I go for a well established agent or a smaller one?

Jonny Geller (Managing Director - Curtis Brown (Books)) gives expert video advice on: What are literary agents looking for?; Do different agents specialise in different things?; Should I go for a well established agent or a smaller one? and more...

I think that the bigger literary agencies have more agents in them, so there's more chance of the manuscript landing on the wrong desk and being passed to someone. A sole operator has very little chance to respond to all the material. The idea of a big agency is not that it's big, because each individual agent looks after their authors. The idea of a big literary agency is simply that there are better resources.