My girlfriend recently signed with an agent. It was the end of a long process of query letters, revisions, and waiting ... and waiting. Probably just shy of a

My girlfriend recently signed with an agent. It was the end of a long process of query letters, revisions, and waiting ... and waiting. Probably just shy of a hundred rejections. That's the traditional way. So am I telling you you need to hack the system? Nope. As it turned out, there is a correlation between how much practice you put in. Some of her writer friends also struggled mightily, wrote better and better books (note the 's'), and found themselves offered representation by multiple agents. I was all about a tech/entrepreneur solution with self publishing, but I have to admit the system does work too (we'll see about royalties later though).