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'The Insider's Guide To Getting An Agent' provides valuable tips for authors with a book to publish. By James L. Gray
The Insider's Guide To Getting An Agent
By Lori Perkins
Writers Digest Books $16.99
In the era of affordable self-publishing, the Web, and cheap photocopying, where does agent and now author Lori Perkins think she's going with this book?
Pretty far, if you ask me. This is a great how-to book for would-be authors of books in that great unknown and critically important area: the literary agent.
I remember my days as a freelancer, picking up assignments here and there - enough to give me the confidence that I could make a living as an independent writer the rest of my working life. No set hours. No managing editor barking at me. No assignment editor sending me places I really didn't want to go. Yes, I used to think, I can make it as a freelancer, picking and choosing my assignments, developing a specialty or two, becoming...