A good agent

Writing advice #38

“I think a good agent the best investment in the world. The point is that an agent can fight for your stuff as you cannot possibly fight yourself. I would never have the nerve to refuse a fairly good offer in the hope of getting more elsewhere, but an agent will.”

PG Wodehouse, Performing Flea

(Plum’s witty and inspiring letters to his writer friend Bill Townend)

I concur, not solely because Phil Patterson secured me a deal with Titan Books but also because he knows such interesting curry houses.