Literarily Speaking September 2011 Book Panel: "Agents: Do we need them to get published?"

The Literarily Speaking Book Panel talks to authors on different subjects regarding books, book industry topics, book selling, book promotions, and whatever catches our fancy. Today's topic is agents. I'm sure everyone knows in order to get into the "big houses," you need an agent.  That goes without saying.  That's the first thing aspiring authors do when they finish a book – send queries to loads of agents hoping they'll be the next best thing.  Unfortunately for...