Where our information comes from

Glass Elevator profiles are built entirely from publicly available information— the same things a diligent writer would find by researching an agent themselves, gathered in one place and rewritten into a single clear summary. We don’t use private data, and we don’t publish anything an agent hasn’t already made public about their work.

The kinds of sources we draw on

• Agents’ own submission guidelines and wish lists — what an agent says they want, in their own public listings.
• Agency websites — bios, client lists, and how each agency wants to be queried.
• Public interviews, podcasts, and panels — where an agent talks about their taste and what they’re looking for. When we quote or paraphrase a named interview, we cite it and link to it.
• Public deal and sale announcements — books an agent has sold, used to show their real track record and the threads running through it.
• Agents’ own public social posts — timely updates such as opening or closing to queries, cited where we use them.

Why our pages don’t look like their sources

We synthesize and rewrite— we don’t republish source text. A profile fuses many fragments into one original summary in our own words, and often surfaces a pattern no single source states outright (for example, what an agent’s sold books quietly have in common). That original synthesis is the work we publish; the raw material stays at its source.

Why we don’t list every source by name

Where an agent or a publication has spoken publicly and on the record — an interview, a podcast, an agency bio, an agent’s own post — we cite it openly, because it’s verifiable and adds authority. For the broader aggregation and tooling we use to assemble and cross-check data at scale, we describe the type of information (a wishlist, a deal record, a status update) rather than name every platform. This keeps the focus on what we can stand behind — the facts on the page — and lets us combine many inputs without implying any one of them endorses us. Everything we publish traces back to information the agent has made public.

How we verify

• We prefer the most authoritative and most recent public signal, and we date what we can.
• Where signals conflict, the fresher, more authoritative one wins, and volatile facts (like query status) are treated as expiring.
• A human editor reviews each profile before it publishes — see how we build our agent profiles.

What we deliberately leave out

No private contact details, no personal information beyond an agent’s professional public presence, and nothing behind a login or paywall reproduced as our own. If an agent has not made something public, it doesn’t go on the page.

Corrections

If a profile is wrong, out of date, or you’re the agent and want something changed or removed, contact us — corrections are a priority and we act on them quickly. The full process is in our editorial policy.