Ponderment for the day: Sue wonders what a literary agent is and would like to know why only "successful" authors or rather those published by larger houses and thus automatically showing up in brick and mortar bookstores speak of them?
I've looked for said creature but found that time is money. It seems that if literary agents do exist they tend to follow the, "they'll help those who help themselves" mentality.
And since large bookstores are falling under the weight of all us authors they continue to betray, I don't see a real advantage to showing up in one. :D
Things work fine they way they are now. You want my book, you can order any of them from any bookstore in the WORLD! You may even see a few on some shelves. If sales are large enough then the bookstores who betray small published and self-published books will even put them in mass on their shelves. It will be a while before that happens with my books though as I've made them non-returnable so large bookstores can't send them back to their distributor.
And that concludes Sue's Ponderment for the day.
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