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Originally Posted by Kickaha
So... you're saying I should get an agent? I'm not sure, you're so subtle on that point...  |
I'm not super familiar with how the textbook business is run - it might be more straightforward. But for any other sort of book, yes yes oh
god yes.
Agents are an author's best friend.
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Originally Posted by Kickaha
I'll definitely look into it, thanks, if I can just get over my control freak nature.
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If you have a control freak nature, as I do - my book is my
baby, and I am its domineering parent - I would think getting an agent would be
more important. They are, again, on your side, so if you have any gripes about the cover/typeface/anything you can tell your agent, who can bitch to the editor on your behalf (while you still look like a perfect angel). Or if they think that the editor is right on something and knows better than you (which
might happen, sometimes, idunno, you did make a fancy-pants dissertation) they can break the news to you in a kinder, gentler way, and maybe work towards a compromise.
Let me put it this way: WRT to control, you're probably better off with an agent than just with an editor. But you do pay for that, of course.