Don't worry about getting an agent

"Call my agent! Send for my lawyer! Sack my manager! And where's my secretary? Another cigarette break?! I need my laundry picking up at six!"

We all have the image of the high-powered showbusiness "legend", stomping around the office, sipping from a crystal champagne flute, having tantrums and causing chaos, as their personal team struggle to placate them.

The truth is, few writers ascend to such a position, on either side of the Atlantic. Those that do usually conduct themselves in a manner rather different to the stereotype. Politeness and pleasantries cost nothing; indeed, one of the old adages of...

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