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THE LITERARY AGENT

The agony of the rejected lover is naught compared to the anguish of the rejected author. This is reason enough to engage a literary agent to flog our work. The agent will take the brunt of the rejection by a publisher and will comfort the author with a second opinion, such as that the publisher has suffered a mental breakdown, blinding him to our unique talent.

It is, of course, possible for the author to be rejected by a literary agent. There is no shame in this, and it is certainly not grounds for jumping off a bridge unless you have additional sources of acute depression.

However, it is difficult to overestimate the value of having an agent. Especially an agent who has a good track record, among publishers, for submitting potential bestsellers. The agent is assumed to have screened out the garbage so that the publisher is, in effect, providing a second opinion and can head to the golf course earlier.