Monday, January 17

Ah... to be a Literary Agent...

... to have hundreds of people a month grovel for my approval...

... to make the rules, change the rules, and break whichever I choose...

... to be the be the bouncers outside the publishing night club...

... to insist that you obey all my requests to the letter, then never respond to your query...

... to take months to request a partial, then get mad when you can't grant me exclusivity as you have other submissions out to agents who didn't take six months to make their request...

... to ask for a resubmit after you make the countless revisions I have suggested to your manuscript, then after the revisions and resubmit are made, inform you that I am far too swamped to take on any new clients at this time...

and last but certainly not least...

... to make my potential employers beg, grovel, plead, revise, query, re-query, submit, resubmit, and make a deal with the devil or whatever evil being they subscribe to - before I allow them to hire me...

Must be the life!  :)

1 comment:

  1. It sounds to me as if all an agent needs is the profits from one best seller. The rest of us can just hang on the line with everyone else.

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