News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #3…

#15:  Joe Konrath has spoken about the gate-keeping mentality of agents.  It's obvious, of course, why they don't like eBook self-publishing.  Joining the ranks still propagating the myth of legacy publishers (this myth states that an author needs an agent, editor, publisher, and publicist, although the agent only gets you out of the slushpile and to the publisher, and the publisher rarely helps you with marketing, while all four reduce your royalties to nothing), the author will find many...