Agent blogs

After sending out my partial, I discovered that Agent 3 has her own blog. She started it the same week I did. This is rather cool.

Luckily, her blog shows her to be a smart, sane, intelligent person. There are a few agent blogs out there that are actually scary - and no, I don't mean either Nadia Cornier or Miss Snark, both of whom I enjoy immensely. You will find them on the sidebar, over there.

I'm curious about the life of an agent. You would have to be both an avid reader and a salesperson - an introvert and an extrovert at the same time. I think such people would be hard to find. They seem to have a lot of fun reading and going to lunch and such, and yet the turnover for both agents and editors is astronomical. I think this must be because you have to sell to make a living, which always separates the wheat from the chaff pretty quickly. It may also be because there is not a lot of formal school training you can do, and you have to learn as you hit the ground running.

In other words, it's harder than it looks.

The amount of pure dreck that shows up in these people's inboxes must be discouraging. No wonder Miss Snark has tantrums.

I signed up for my local RWA chapter weeks ago. Are they supposed to send me something, I wonder?

I have finally entered the RWA listservs, but the overall scheme of things eludes me.

I am not allowed to buy books until my birthday, sometime in March.

Darn it - nothing else to do, but write.

Abby