: Re: Is it true that writers don't really need agents and they can just query publishers directly, as Dean Wesley Smith says? While I tend to agree with the writer & publishing guru, Dean Wesley

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My agent at Wordwise Media found a publisher (Writer's Digest Books) for my book The Editor's Companion and was confident enough to request a substantial advance. I thought we would never cover the advance, and I didn't want the publisher to lose money on my book. But my agent knew what he was doing, and the book covered the advance and is still paying royalties about five years later. I could have tried to find a publisher myself, but I don't know whether the book would even have gotten published without my agent, so to me a good agent is well worth the money.

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