Agent Joyce Holland: The writing business is strange

For weeks on end I receive submissions that leave me discouraged and then will suddenly get two or three in a row that are just plain wonderful and raise my excitement level to giddy. Giddy is good! It restores my belief that what I'm doing counts for something. Then there are the funny ones, the obscene ones, and the threatening ones. Let's ignore the last two. My favorite funny submission was one I received the other day. It was short and sweet. Basically, the author described his book as c...