Literary Agents are destroying everything!!!

[charmian]

Via OTF_wank: The Talent Killers: How Literary Agents are Destroying Literature and What Publishers Can Do to Stop Them. Or, a lot of BAAAAWWWWW and WEEEOOOO.

The evil, evil literary agents are obsessed with books that people will pay money for, and avoid books that they don't think people will want to buy. Shocking...

However, I think the ones really to blame are..... readers! Readers are the reason they're publishing so much vampire fiction and fantasy novels and mystery-thrillers.

This comment is also very perceptive: it's the bookstores which don't make it possible for an author to slowly build up an audience, because they return books so relentlessly.

Comments

[kali]

I find this and this vindictively hilarious, though I certainly don't know if the first is meant to be tongue-in-cheek (I derive maximum amusement by assuming it is not, so why would I do otherwise?)

[charmian]

Heh. I wonder maybe if the OP shouldn't spend less time fencing with people online and more time working on her writing...

[troisroyaumes]

Yeah, now that I look at the original post, there are many more negative comments there. XD This sums up my reaction pretty well.