BE CAREFUL OF AGENTS, SOME ARE WOLVES IN AGENT CLOTHING.

(Did you know that if you put your curser in the fish tank on the right it will draw the fish toward it? Good luck fishing!) A week has past and I am no longer frustrated, but I still have a warning for writers. Be very careful when you are looking for agents. I was “taken” only two (almost three) times by agents who directed me to editors who never finished the work and both agent and editor disappeared after getting their pay. I had an agent “just north of New York City” with a huge mailroom so I had to mark my manuscript “requested by _______” in order to have the agent receive it in a timely manner. Turned out that she was about 200 miles north and the mailroom was a mailbox in front of her house. She was a piano teacher who would receive a batch of manuscripts and send them to publishers five at a time. I suppose she would get one published every so often. The word is research, research, and more research. It is so tempting for a new author to grab at anyone who might get his or her book published. I know. I was one of them!