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Agent Secret

Just yesterday I found out another academic colleague is a wannabe novelist.   Unaware that I had written six novels and more short stories than I can count (I don’t have that many fingers), she asked me if I knew anything about getting an agent.   My response: I know a lot about NOT getting an agent. You see, a friend of mine knows an agent.   He introduced us via email.   The agent kindly agreed to consider my Medusa novel, even though two weeks later he forgot who I was.   At least he read it.   No other agent has.   Didn’t sway him, though. I spend some time on Medium.com .   They have some great stuff about writing.   They won’t care to read much of your stuff unless you’ve had more success than I have, but then, I’ve got a nine-to-five and I take my writing way too seriously. Hearing from my professorial colleague got me excited about my fiction again.   Problem is I’ve got a non-fiction tome under contract and a deadline nearing.   If there were 36-ho