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I don't know about the rest of you, but I've had four agents over the past decade and none of them have really panned out to be what I expected. Was I dupped or is that just the way things work in this arena? Before you decide let me tell you a bit about my four previous agents. The first one was a woman who resided in Chicago. She told me that she believed in my totally, but eventually her family needed her more than she could work for me and other authors who had entrusted her to help our writing careers along. The second one was a darling man from Wisconsin, if memeory serves me here.

The economy is awful right now. Unless you’ve been living under that proverbial rock these past months, that much is obvious. If you’ve been following the publishing world lately, the dire state of things is even more apparent. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt put a stop to buying new manuscripts, Borders is cutting jobs, and publishers are having to make more hard choices just to stay afloat. Whether you believe the doomsayers who are predicting the downfall of the publishing industry or not, one thing is clear: the difficult road to traditional publication has become even more difficult.