The world of writing
Aug 05, 2021
3 minutes
AGENTS OF DESPAIR
Show us a novelist, and we’ll show you someone who at some stage has felt neglected or frustrated at the lack of response from an agent. So our sympathies went out to Chris Paling, who revealed in The Guardian a ‘trick’ he tried to get a response from his agent, the late Deborah Rogers, which came to light when a colleague found a letter to Chris, from Chris, in her drawer.
‘Frustrated after months of trying to get a response to a novel, I had written a letter to myself, enclosed a
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