Seeking a Good Agent

 

I am a writer. I need an agent. 

But the last thing I can say to an agent is, “I need you.”

 Most do not want to be needed. They want to sift through the desperate pleas of hundreds of authors looking for those who only need a teenage niece or nephew to set up a savvy Amazon campaign to start earning royalties.

 With the options open to writers today, a great online marketer/publicist DOES NOT NEED an agent or a publisher! A mediocre writer who happens to know the ins and outs of online publicity can sell zillions of copies of pure, self-published drivel. They can launch podcasts or send out Facebook posts that incite insurrections and prolong epidemics.

 I am a writer. I am not an agent. I need an agent, or a teenage niece or nephew.