What an Agent Thinks

Adjectives are not your friends.
They’re like too much salt.

Each time I reopen my Kindle, my shoulders relax and my breath eases.

I’m reading a manuscript and I forget that I work in the publishing industry.

Spend four days as your character.
Eat lunch as that character.

Once you solve the problem of the story, the anxieties of paying the bills seems to evaporate.

That introduction started as a long
e-mail to the literary agent.

When an agent passes, it’s often not
a judgment on your work.