I’ve been spending a lot of time on literary agents’ pages. One thing has become clear to me: to find an agent you’d better not have a regular job. Well, unless that job is prominent, of course. Professors, politicians, sports stars, actors—they can find agents with ease. The rest of us, not so much. As I’m sitting here soaking in the proletariat pool, I’m contemplating looking for an agent for a story collection. One of the things I noticed when doing all my agent hunting was that a few of them handle story collections. Some writers made livings on stories: Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, and H. P. Lovecraft come to mind. I’ve started reading collections of short stories again. I really like the way a novel sucks you in and keeps you engaged for hours. Our fractured lifestyles, however, often mean a collection of stories will get you through a compartmentalized day. As a writer I have written four no...
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