The Writer/Agent Conundrum

You have to wonder about literary agents sometimes…

I, for one, am thankful for all the agents who do a lot of hard work pitching their clients novels out to various publishers. They get as many, if not more, rejection notifications than the actual writer does. Plus, they have to deal with the pressure from both sides: an anxious author and an exasperated publisher.

That being said, it does make me a little uncomfortable when I visit an agent's website and I see them touting their own writing a...