I think that one of the things that contributes to the animosity against agents is unpublished writers seeing agents primarily as a gatekeeper for publishing houses.
I really wish that the gatekeeper idea would go away, because agents really are NOT gatekeepers for the publishing houses, not in the way a lot of unpublished authors seem to think. Yeah, they kinda filter out the crap, but publishing houses would do that on their own if they did take unagented submissions.
No matter what, there's nobody except PublishAmerica who's gonna publish every single thing that gets mailed to them. So either it's agents or editors or someone who's going to filter out what isn't marketable/publishable.
More people probably get published quicker and easier and with better results BECAUSE of agents than despite them.
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I really wish that the gatekeeper idea would go away, because agents really are NOT gatekeepers for the publishing houses, not in the way a lot of unpublished authors seem to think. Yeah, they kinda filter out the crap, but publishing houses would do that on their own if they did take unagented submissions.
No matter what, there's nobody except PublishAmerica who's gonna publish every single thing that gets mailed to them. So either it's agents or editors or someone who's going to filter out what isn't marketable/publishable.
More people probably get published quicker and easier and with better results BECAUSE of agents than despite them.