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Having a literary agent would be sweet. They
boil my manuscript down to its two sentence essence, target the right editor at
the right publisher, and sell my book. Voila!
Way better than my process: spend a million hours (approximately) researching
publishers, try to write something cute about the editor in the query letter,
remember I don't actually know anything about the editor, cry.
My $10 writing budget didn’t allow for a conference to meet editors in person so I could at least
say "we met once." Nor did it
allow for driving into the city, hanging out in swanky wine bars, and buying
anyone a drink who said the word "editor." Learning 1: I needed to find information
without turning into the creep at the bar.
